gomingw's goinstall fails.

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by zippoxer:

Before filing a bug, please check whether it has been fixed since
the latest release: run "hg pull", "hg update default", rebuild, and
retry
what you did to
reproduce the problem.  Thanks.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Installing gomingw installer for build of release r60.1
2. Running goinstall.exe, even with no parameters.

What is the expected output?
You know that ;-)

What do you see instead?
throw: runtime: cannot reserve arena virtual address space

Which compiler are you using (5g, 6g, 8g, gccgo)?
8g

Which operating system are you using?
Windows 7

Which revision are you using?  (hg identify)
I ran "Installer for Win32 (experimental) build of release.r60.1"
(hd identify doesn't cooperate, sorry)

Please provide any additional information below.

[dupoxy]

Comment 1:

do this help ?
https://golang.org/issue/1826

[alexbrainman]

Comment 2:

Issue #2289 has been merged into this issue.

[alexbrainman]

Comment 3:

Some context from https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/zuLRF-d3LTs/discussion
>>>
I compiled Go using mingw on windows, and when running goinstall.exe I get:
throw: runtime: cannot reserve arena virtual address space
I also tried running the goinstall included in gomingw and got the same result.
<<<
The message you are seeing is result of VirtualAlloc function fails to reserve address
space.
I agree with [email protected], it could be security related:
https://golang.org/issue/1826
You could try and copy goinstall.exe into file with a different name:
C:\>cd \Go\bin
C:\Go\bin>copy goinstall.exe a.exe
        1 file(s) copied.
C:\Go\bin>a.exe
usage: goinstall importpath...
        goinstall -a
  -a=false: install all previously installed packages
  -clean=false: clean the package directory before installing
  -dashboard=true: report public packages at http://godashboard.appspot.com/pack
age
  -install=true: build and install
  -make=true: use make to build and install
  -nuke=false: clean the package directory and target before installing
  -u=false: update already-downloaded packages
  -v=false: verbose
C:\Go\bin>
If that works for you, then all solutions are listed here
https://golang.org/issue/1826
Alex

Labels changed: added os-windows.

Owner changed to @alexbrainman.

Status changed to WaitingForReply.

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Comment 4 by zippoxer:

It works, thank you :P
I don't mind typing a instead of goinstall at the moment.

[alexbrainman]

Comment 5:

Executable with a name that contains "install" in it ...? Sounds dangerous to me :-)
Sorry, I still can't get over it.

Status changed to Duplicate.

Merged into issue #1826.

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Comment 6 by zippoxer:

Share that feeling with Windows, because I can't understand that :P
I think most "install" containing executables are friends.