dependency: golang.org/x/sys is out of date

[Hyperzsb]

Env

$ go version
go version go1.19 darwin/amd64

Problem

Today, when I was following the README to learn how to use bbolt in my project, I encounter a problem looking like this:

$ go run .
# golang.org/x/sys/unix
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/syscall_darwin.1_13.go:29:3: //go:linkname must refer to declared function or variable
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.1_13.go:27:3: //go:linkname must refer to declared function or variable
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.1_13.go:40:3: //go:linkname must refer to declared function or variable
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.go:28:3: //go:linkname must refer to declared function or variable
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.go:43:3: //go:linkname must refer to declared function or variable
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.go:59:3: //go:linkname must refer to declared function or variable
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.go:75:3: //go:linkname must refer to declared function or variable
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.go:90:3: //go:linkname must refer to declared function or variable
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.go:105:3: //go:linkname must refer to declared function or variable
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.go:121:3: //go:linkname must refer to declared function or variable
/Users/hyperzsb/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/[email protected]/unix/zsyscall_darwin_amd64.go:121:3: too many errors

My Code

My code only calls some basic functions like bolt.Open(), tx.CreateBucketIfNotExists(), b.Put(), and b.Get(). Just a very simple demo.

Solution

After googling this problem, I found some similar issues available, like golang/go#51706. According to these issues, the reason for this problem is that the package golang.org/x/sys (which is a dependency of bbolt) is out of date. So, I successfully fix it by updating golang.org/x/sys to the latest version with:

$ go get -u golang.org/x/sys
go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.4.0
go: upgraded golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20200923182605-d9f96fdee20d => v0.4.0

Suggestion

I found the go.mod in the master branch has already used golang.org/x/sys of v0.3.0, while the go.mod in the v1.3.6 tag is still using v0.0.0-20200923182605-d9f96fdee20d.

So, I suppose it may be a good idea to release a patch to solve this dependency issue along with some more features (like features mentioned in #353).

Thank you very much for your attention!

[ahrtr]

After #379 is merged, all dependencies, including golang.org/x/sys, can be bumped automatically.

After we release 1.3.7, this issue should can be resolved automatically.