[bug?] Strange error with cgo and cc1 on raspberry pi

[TheButlah]

This bug prevents me from compiling my code as it depends on several libraries that exhibit this bug (they never exhibited the behavior before, I recently reinstalled go).

Sorry in advance if its not a bug - I suppose its possible that its because I'm using armv6l on an armv7l OS on an armv8l CPU, but my understanding was that that would be perfectly fine. Maybe I'm wrong?

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.13 linux/arm

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes, reproduces with go1.13.linux-armv6l.tar.gz and go1.12.9.linux-armv6l.tar.gz

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

Running Raspberry pi 4, armv7l (32bit os on 64 bit armv8l CPU)

go env Output

$ go env
GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="arm"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/home/ryan/.cache/go-build"
GOENV="/home/ryan/.config/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="arm"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/ryan/.go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_arm"
GCCGO="gccgo"
GOARM="6"
AR="ar"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/opt/huggable.us/go.mod"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -marm -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build988274220=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"

What did you do?

go get -u -v github.com/urfave/cli... or go get -u -v golang.org/x/text/internal... or go get -u -v golang.org/x/crypto...

What did you expect to see?

Successfully go get the package

What did you see instead?

In the case of go get -u -v github.com/urfave/cli... I saw:

github.com/urfave/cli (download)
github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man (download)
github.com/BurntSushi/toml (download)
get "gopkg.in/yaml.v2": found meta tag get.metaImport{Prefix:"gopkg.in/yaml.v2", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://gopkg.in/yaml.v2"} at //gopkg.in/yaml.v2?go-get=1
gopkg.in/yaml.v2 (download)
runtime/cgo
# runtime/cgo
gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory

Last three lines define the error in question, occur in all cases.

[agnivade]

Looks like you don't have the build toolchain installed. The top google hit gives https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11912878/gcc-error-gcc-error-trying-to-exec-cc1-execvp-no-such-file-or-directory.

Please try that and let us know.

[TheButlah]

I already looked at that, and I've tried all manner of updating build-essentials and manually installing gcc and g++. Beyond that I'm not knowledgeable enough to diagnose the issue further. Do you have any other suggestions for how to debug this?

[ianlancetaylor]

As @agnivade said it looks like there is something wrong with your GCC installation. What happens if you compile a simple C file?

[TheButlah]

Yep I'm dumb, compiling a basic hello world c file fails with the same execve error. Not sure whats wrong with my setup. Will update if it ends up being something relevant to go in particular.