Unable to build gedcom 39.2.0 from source

[degb00]

I recently downloaded the gedcom 39.2.0 source code. I am using Ubuntu 18.04 as my OS.

I installed make and go this way:

sudo apt install make sudo apt install make-guile sudo snap install go sudo apt install gccgo-go

$ go version go version go1.10.3 gccgo (Ubuntu 8.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04) 8.4.0 linux/amd64

When I run make, it fails. I captured the output in the attached file. make.out.txt

[degb00]

I suspect go 1.10 is too old.

I removed go version 1.10 this way: sudo snap remove go sudo apt install gccgo-go

I installed go 1.14 using the directions from here: https://golang.org/doc/install?download=go1.14.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

I unpacked the tarball into /usr/local as they suggested. I added the go directory to my path: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

When I run make, I get this output, and no executable called gedcom.

go test -race ./... go: downloading github.com/elliotchance/tf v1.5.0 go: downloading github.com/cheggaaa/pb v1.0.27 go: downloading github.com/stretchr/testify v1.3.0 go: downloading github.com/google/go-cmp v0.2.0 go: downloading golang.org/x/text v0.3.0 go: downloading github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 go: downloading github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.4 go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190114130336-2be517255631 ok github.com/elliotchance/gedcom 0.988s ? github.com/elliotchance/gedcom/cmd/gedcom [no test files] ok github.com/elliotchance/gedcom/html 0.071s ok github.com/elliotchance/gedcom/html/core 0.045s ok github.com/elliotchance/gedcom/q 0.163s ? github.com/elliotchance/gedcom/util [no test files]

[degb00]

Here is the final step to build the executable:

go build ./cmd/gedcom

[elliotchance]

Hi @degb00 - I'm going to close this since it wasn't actually a problem with this repo, but rather just a version of go that was too old to build it.