OpenBSD

Go on OpenBSD

Go is available within the OpenBSD ports tree collection since OpenBSD 5.2. It is marked as i386- and amd64- only. See ports/lang/go for details.

OpenBSD release	golang in ports
6.1 (Apr 11, 2017)	go-1.8
6.0 (Sep 1, 2016)	go-1.6.3
5.9 (Mar 29, 2016)	go-1.5.4
5.8 (Oct 18, 2015)	go-1.4.2
5.7 (May 1, 2015)	go-1.4.1
5.6 (Nov 1, 2014)	go-1.3p0

Building from source

Kernel version	Architectures	Initial support version	Final support version
6.1	amd64, arm, 386	Go 1.8
6.0	amd64, 386	Go 1.4.1 *
6.0	arm	Go 1.5
5.9	amd64, 386	Go 1.4.1 *	Go 1.8.4
5.9	arm	Go 1.5	Go 1.8.4
5.6 through 5.8	amd64, 386	Go 1.4.1 *	Go 1.7.6
5.5	amd64, 386	Go 1.3 *	Go 1.7.6
5.0 through 5.4	amd64, 386	Go 1	Go 1.2.2

* Go 1.5 or above is recommended.

Longterm support

Go aims to support the two most recent OpenBSD releases, because OpenBSD officially supports only the two most recent releases, and makes a best-effort attempt to maintain ABI support in consecutive releases.

ulimits (/etc/login.conf)

Edit /etc/login.conf so that the staff class has the proper settings. The following is a working example of the staff class:

staff:\
       :datasize-cur=infinity:\
       :datasize-max=infinity:\
       :datasize=infinity:\
       :openfiles-cur=4096:\
       :maxproc-max=512:\
       :maxproc-cur=512:\
       :ignorenologin:\
       :requirehome@:\
       :tc=default:

If the database file /etc/login.conf.db exists, you need to rebuild it with:

# cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

Ensure that the user you intend to build Go with is in the staff login class:

# usermod -L staff your_username_here