go/build: explain -tags better in the go/build documentation

[gopherbot]

by kyle.[email protected]:

The help text for the "go build" command says:

    -tags 'tag list'
        a list of build tags to consider satisfied during the build.
        For more information about build tags, see the description of
        build constraints in the documentation for the go/build package.

however, nothing in the go/build documentation page
(http://golang.org/pkg/go/build/#hdr-Build_Constraints)  says anything about the
"-tags" option. There is one reference to "ctxt.BuildTags," but no
examples of actually calling "go build" with -tags set.

It would be great if the documentation included an example of using -tags to pass in
custom build constraints. As it is, there are no examples of this powerful feature,
aside from a test shell script that ships with the go source.

[ianlancetaylor]

Comment 1:

_Labels changed: added repo-main, release-none, documentation._

[yonderblue]

Are custom build tags intended to be used? I just tried to set up a build program using them but ran into the fact that vet doesn't have a -tags option.

[derekperkins]

I've been looking for about 20 minutes to find out how to use multiple build tags and still haven't found the answer.

[ryancouto]

@derekperkins find anything? also looking.

[davecheney]

-tag a,b,c

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, 08:35 Ryan Couto [email protected] wrote:

@derekperkins https://github.com/derekperkins find anything? also
looking.

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[akaspin]

@davecheney No luck. A have two different files: first with "debug" (in lib) tag and second with "lowlevel" (in test).

$ go test -tags debug ./...    # OK
$ go test -tags lowlevel ./...    # OK
$ go test -tags lowlevel,debug ./...
... [no test files]

If I remove // +build lowlevel from test file - tests runs. But with "-tags lowlevel,debug" "debug" tag has no effect.

UPD: This works

$ go test -tags="lowlevel debug" ./...

[bradfitz]

This bit me too recently. IIRC, one tool wanted commas and another wanted spaces.

[quentinmit]

Dupe of #17148