fails to be build because undefined: elliptic.P224

[Telmo]

telmo@dcavm-ch2-052p ❯ git clone https://github.com/coreos/etcd-ca
Cloning into 'etcd-ca'...
remote: Reusing existing pack: 730, done.
remote: Total 730 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (730/730), 1.01 MiB | 1.49 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (151/151), done.
⋯᚜ ~ ᚛⋯
telmo@dcavm-ch2-052p ❯ cd etcd-ca/
/opt/home/rmoral00/etcd-ca
⋯᚜ ~/etcd-ca ᚛⋯ ⋯᚜ master  ᚛⋯
telmo@dcavm-ch2-052p ❯ ./build
Building etcd-ca
# github.com/coreos/etcd-ca/third_party/github.com/jstemmer/pkcs10
src/github.com/coreos/etcd-ca/third_party/github.com/jstemmer/pkcs10/pkcs10.go:172: undefined: elliptic.P224
src/github.com/coreos/etcd-ca/third_party/github.com/jstemmer/pkcs10/x509.go:184: undefined: elliptic.P224
src/github.com/coreos/etcd-ca/third_party/github.com/jstemmer/pkcs10/x509.go:197: undefined: elliptic.P224
⋯᚜ ~/etcd-ca ᚛⋯ ⋯᚜ master  ✭ ᚛⋯
telmo@dcavm-ch2-052p ❯

 rmoral00@dcavm-ch2-052p ❯ go version
go version go1.2 linux/amd64
⋯᚜ ~/etcd-ca ᚛⋯ ⋯᚜ master  ✭ ᚛⋯
 rmoral00@dcavm-ch2-052p ❯ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseServer
Description:    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)
Release:    6.1
Codename:   Santiago

[timbertson]

I get the same errors on fedora 20

[timbertson]

Well, that would be why: fedora / redhat removed that curve with a patch to golang in the official packages.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038683

The following hacky patch (to pkcs10) just comments out the failing lines, which now compiles (and seems to work), so presumably that curve is not actually required for etcd-ca with the default settings.

https://gist.github.com/gfxmonk/973a74e2c7d4020e5258

[kelseyhightower]

@Telmo and @gfxmonk I'm not sure we want to get in the habit of keeping track of how distros patch golang. Today our projects require golang from upstream if you plan to build from source. I'm closing this issue based on this being a bug with Fedora/Redhat.

[davidstrauss]

Fedora and Red Hat complying with US patent law is hardly a distribution bug.