Problems with install docs in readme.md

[jimconner]

Hi there - I'm just trying to work through the install docs in the readme, but I'm hitting a problem with

1. Install etcd
   go install github.com/coreos/etcd

jim@ip-10-11-0-123:~/workspace/diego-release$ go install github.com/coreos/etcd

github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/transport

src/github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/transport/listener.go:56:4: error: unknown field ‘KeepAlive’ in ‘net.Dialer’
KeepAlive: 30 * time.Second,
^
src/github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/transport/listener.go:58:3: error: unknown field ‘TLSHandshakeTimeout’ in ‘http.Transport’
TLSHandshakeTimeout: 10 * time.Second,
^
src/github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/transport/timeout_transport.go:34:4: error: unknown field ‘KeepAlive’ in ‘net.Dialer’
KeepAlive: 30 * time.Second,
^

I suspect this is caused by Ubuntu 14.04 coming with gccgo-go 4.9, which as I understand it only contains support for Go 1.2

Is there any workaround for this one?

Cheers!!

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[emalm]

Hi, @jimconner,

Thanks for letting us know about the issue installing these dependencies. We have observed the same problem on a fresh trusty VM with the "golang" package installed, which currently provides go1.2.1. We currently build all the go source code in diego-release with go1.4 when deployed with BOSH. Can you upgrade your system to go 1.4 and try again?

Best,
@ematpl && @matt-royal, for the CF Runtime Diego team

[jimconner]

Hi Eric,

I first tried with Ubuntu's go package, and after that didn't work, tried installing go 1.4.2 from the golang offical tgz distribution... and when that still didn't work, I tried go 1.3.3 from a tgz too...

I understand that the fields it's throwing errors on were added in go 1.3, and as it hadn't worked with either 1.3.3 or 1.4.2, that's when I started thinking that the problem might be with gccgo and raised the ticket.

I'm tempted to try it out on an OS other than Ubuntu 14.04 to see if it works on there.

Cheers,

Jim

On 19/03/2015 17:32, Eric Malm wrote:

Hi, @jimconner https://github.com/jimconner,

Thanks for letting us know about the issue installing these dependencies. We have observed the same problem on a fresh trusty VM with the "golang" package installed, which currently provides go1.2.1. We currently build all the go source code in diego-release with go1.4 when deployed with BOSH. Can you upgrade your system to go 1.4 and try again?

Best,
@ematpl https://github.com/ematpl && @matt-royal https://github.com/matt-royal, for the CF Runtime Diego team

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[jimconner]

Hi Eric,

I have now tested the same steps on RHEL 7.1 (using go 1.4.2 from the tgz as before) and it has no problems with etcd. - Looks like this is an Ubuntu 14.04 specific issue.

Cheers,

Jim

[jimconner]

Hi again Eric,

I've now managed to get the etcd installation to work flawlessly on Ubuntu 14.04 too - I guess the problem that I was hitting was somehow caused by the Ubuntu deb package for go tainting the system before I tried the binary distributions for go.

Please close this issue as there's nothing to fix.

Cheers,

Jim

[emalm]

Hi, @jimconner,

Great, glad to hear you've now been able to get the dependencies to build correctly!

Thanks again,
Eric