2020-11-08
While moving my development environments to WSL2 I stumbled over a strange but
obviously known bug: Although the go compiler go build itself does not depend
on GCC, under Linux go test may abort for not finding GCC in $PATH. As far
as I saw in the issues
this behaviour was introduced shortly after Go 1.11 and it is obviously still
not fixed in Go 1.15. The comments at Github advice to change the environment
variables CGO_ENABLED and/or GO111MODULE. Since I did not have luck with that I
resorted to the cheapest workaround: simply install GCC. Sometime it may have
additional use beside fixing go test.
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