Skip to content

build.sh uses GNU-only date --utc and arch; fails on macOS dev machines #32

Description

@dolph

Summary

build.sh uses two GNU-coreutils-only commands:

BUILD_DATE="$(date --utc)"     # GNU date; BSD/macOS date wants `-u`
BUILD_ARCH="$(arch)"           # GNU coreutils; on macOS, `arch` returns "i386" even on Apple Silicon

On macOS:

  • date --utc errors out with usage: date [-jnRu]…. Without set -e already in place, this errors at build time; with set -e (current state), the script aborts.
  • arch exists but reports the kernel arch (i386 for 64-bit, arm64 on M1+). On macOS the canonical Go-style arch comes from uname -m.

This makes build.sh Linux-only despite Go being portable.

Impact (Cross-platform: Low)

Suggested Fix

Replace with portable equivalents:

BUILD_DATE="$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')"   # POSIX date -u, ISO 8601
BUILD_OS="$(go env GOOS)"
BUILD_ARCH="$(go env GOARCH)"

go env is always available since this is a Go project, and it returns the same canonical values Go uses internally (linux/darwin/windows × amd64/arm64/…).

Bonus: drop OSTYPE (a bash-only variable) in favor of go env GOOS.

Files

  • build.sh:11-12, 25-26

Activity

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    Projects

    No projects

      Milestone

      No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions