On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 12:59:01AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
> Tags: fixed-upstream
> Forwarded: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20007
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This patch fixes the test failure in core-updates. I've tried to
> cherry-pick upstream's commit, but it doesn't work. So I fall back to
> fix it directly instead. The bug has already been fixed upstream, and
> the fix will be in the next release (1.9). See [0] for details.
> 

> From 023f866f8838df457639a38af9c2c733e445435d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 00:41:17 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: go@1.8: Fix test failure.
> 
> * gnu/packages/golang.scm (go-1.8)[arguments]: Escape braces in test data in
> 'prebuild' phase.

Thanks! Pushed as eaca9ff07e4762c3d33e3090bab999c7cf74c98a.

BTW, I've attached an update to the latest Go, 1.9beta2. I can
successfully build Syncthing with it.