setup-go does not work on macos-14 (M1)

[Le0Developer]

Description:
actions/setup-go is erroring when used on macos-14 (M1 runners)

Action version:
v5

Platform:

• Ubuntu
• macOS
• Windows

Runner type:

• Hosted
• Self-hosted

Tools version:

Repro steps:
https://github.com/Le0Developer/go-setup-macos-14

Expected behavior:
Should build & print hello world.

Actual behavior:

Setup go version spec 
Warning: go-version input was not specified. The action will try to use pre-installed version.
/bin/sh: version: command not found
Error: Command failed:  version
/bin/sh: version: command not found

[HarithaVattikuti]

Hello @Le0Developer
Thank you for creating this issue. We will investigate it and get back to you as soon as we have some feedback.

[gaby]

The action should be using the darwin-arm64 ? @Le0Developer have you tried specifying a version?

According to the official docs the arm64 m1 based images do not come with golang preinstalled.

Source: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/macos/macos-14-arm64-Readme.md

Try the following and it should work:

jobs:
  build:
    name: Build on macOS 14 (M1)
    runs-on: macos-14
  steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
      with:
        go-version: '1.22.x'
        check-latest: true
    - run: go run hello.go

[gaby]

@HarithaVattikuti This action should default to installing the latest Golang on darwin platforms.

[matthewhughes934]

@HarithaVattikuti This action should default to installing the latest Golang on darwin platforms.

🤔 how should this action behaviour in general when Golang is not installed in the system and not version is given. At the moment: the line

setup-go/src/main.ts

Line 65 in 6c1fd22

const goVersion = (cp.execSync(`${goPath} version`) || '').toString();

will have goPath == '' and run:

cp.execSync(` version`)

Resulting in the rather unclear error /bin/sh: version: command not found (i.e. the error from the issue)

In this case I suppose the action could:

• Install some reasonable default version (I'm not sure any of the other setup-* actions do this)
• Fail with a clearer error: setup-java does something similar (but from what I can see it doesn't fallback to trying to use any system install) https://github.com/actions/setup-java/blob/7a445ee88d4e23b52c33fdc7601e40278616c7f8/src/setup-java.ts#L40
• Continue in a safer manner, expecting there is a system installation: this is what setup-python does: https://github.com/actions/setup-python/blob/871daa956ca9ea99f3c3e30acb424b7960676734/src/setup-python.ts#L148 when things will just fail later with some error like go: No such file or directory when go is invoked

[Le0Developer]

The action should be using the darwin-arm64 ? @Le0Developer have you tried specifying a version?

According to the official docs the arm64 m1 based images do not come with golang preinstalled.

Source: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/macos/macos-14-arm64-Readme.md

I'd expect setup-go to setup go, regardless of if it's already installed or not.

Try the following and it should work:

jobs:
  build:
    name: Build on macOS 14 (M1)
    runs-on: macos-14
  steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
      with:
        go-version: '1.22.x'
        check-latest: true
    - run: go run hello.go

That does work! I was expecting it to default to the latest version, but that works!

[aparnajyothi-y]

Hello @Le0Developer, Apologies for the delay in the response and we have investigated the issue and we are able to reproduce the error with go-version input was not specified in the workflow file. The go-version input should specify the version of Go that we want to set up. If it's not provided, the action tries to use a pre-installed version, which seems to be failing.

Here is an example of how to specify the go-version input:

• name: Set up Go
  uses: actions/setup-go@v5
  with:
  go-version: 1.12 # Replace with your desired Go version

Thank you for the confirmation and we have checked your workflow and the action is successful after adding the go-version.
Hello @gaby, actions/setup-go action can indeed be set up to install the latest version of Go. However, it doesn't default to installing the latest version unless you specify it.

To set up the latest stable version of Go, you can use the @latest version specifier in your workflow file:

• name: Set up Go
  uses: actions/setup-go@v5
  with:
  go-version: '1.12'
  check-latest: true

Proceeding to close this as the issue resolved with go-version. Please feel free to reach us in case of any further clarifications to reopen this issue.