Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] go: fix multilib file conflicts

[Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>]

On 1/8/26 18:10, Ross Burton wrote:
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> On 6 Jan 2026, at 01:15, Changqing Li via lists.openembedded.org <changqing.li=windriver.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
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>> On 1/6/26 02:08, Ross Burton wrote:
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>>> On 22 Dec 2025, at 03:24, Changqing Li via lists.openembedded.org <changqing.li=windriver.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
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>>>> From: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
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>>>> This is for fixing the following error of 'bitbake meta-go-toolchain'
>>>> when multilib is enabled:
>>>> Error: Transaction test error:
>>>> file /usr/bin/go conflicts between attempted installs of go-1.25.4-r0.x86_64_v3 and lib32-go-1.25.4-r0.core2_32
>>>> file /usr/bin/gofmt conflicts between attempted installs of go-1.25.4-r0.x86_64_v3 and lib32-go-1.25.4-r0.core2_32
>>>>
>>> Why would you do this though? We don’t support installing bash and lib32-bash either.
>> Hi, Ross
>> The issue reproduced when multilib is enabled globally in local.conf by following config:
>> ```
>> require conf/multilib.conf
>> MULTILIBS ?= "multilib:lib32"
>> DEFAULTTUNE:virtclass-multilib-lib32 ?= "core2-32"
>> ```
>> bitbake meta-go-toolchain will failed with above failure.
>>
>> [snip of meta-go-toolchain.bb]
>> TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK:append = " \ ${@multilib_pkg_extend(d, 'packagegroup-go-sdk-target')} \ "
>> [snip of meta-go-toolchain.bb]
>>
>> go is in packagegroup-go-sdk-target,  it is extended by multilib_pkg_extend.  so both go and lib32-go will be installed.
>> go is added in to packagegroup-go-sdk-target for providing entire toolchain include compiler.
> Maybe the packagegroup shouldn’t be doing that expansion then?

We don't want go to be extended, but packagegroup-go-sdk-target not only include go, it also includes go-runtime/go-runtime-dev, we need to extend go-runtime/go-runtime-dev.

so fix go packaging for multilib as this patch to avoid the conflicts issue.

//Changqing

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> Ross