There were at least two bugs:
1) It would overwrite a non-archive.
2) It would truncate a non-archive and then fail.
In general the file handling was too clever to be correct.
Make it more straightforward, doing the creation
separately from archive management.
Fixes#8369.
LGTM=adg, iant
R=golang-codereviews, adg, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/147010046
When Go 1.3 is released, this will keep existing
Go 1.2 build scripts that use 'go tool pack grc' working.
For efficiency, such scripts should be changed to
use 6g -pack instead, but keeping the old behavior
available enables a more graceful transition.
LGTM=r
R=r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/66130043
Replace the pack command, a C program, with a clean reimplementation in Go.
It does not need to reproduce the full feature set and it is no longer used by
the build chain, but has a role in looking inside archives created by the build
chain directly.
Since it's not in C, it is no longer build by dist, so remove it from cmd/dist and
make it a "tool" in cmd/go terminology.
Fixes#2705
R=rsc, dave, minux.ma, josharian
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/52310044
Also:
- faster code for example extraction
- simplify handling of command documentation:
all "main" packages are treated as commands
- various minor cleanups along the way
For commands written in Go, any doc.go file containing
documentation must now be part of package main (rather
then package documentation), otherwise the documentation
won't show up in godoc (it will still build, though).
For commands written in C, documentation may still be
in doc.go files defining package documentation, but the
recommended way is to explicitly ignore those files with
a +build ignore constraint to define package main.
Fixes#4806.
R=adg, rsc, dave, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7333046