Compilation failure with go 1.6

[erectcrested]

Building on x86-64 ubuntu server 16.04.04 with fails:

nanovms@nanovms:~/ops$ make deps
go get github.com/spf13/cobra
go get github.com/vishvananda/netlink
# golang.org/x/sys/unix
../go/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/ioctl.go:18: undefined: runtime.KeepAlive
../go/src/golang.org/x/sys/unix/ioctl.go:28: undefined: runtime.KeepAlive
Makefile:22: recipe for target 'deps' failed
make: *** [deps] Error 2


nanovms@nanovms:~/ops$ go version
go version go1.6.2 linux/amd64

[eyberg]

i asked him to open this issue for documentation reasons - we should throw this in the docs that chad is writing up - make a note that as of right now you need at least go 1.10 or go 1.11 cause of the 'x' packages

[eyberg]

looks like it's go 1.7 and above golang/go#26576

[eyberg]

@cbarraford might just make a note in docs that if building from source min. go requirement is 1.7

[cbarraford]

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