`go tool`: receiving an `exit status 1` for certain dependencies

[jamietanna]

Go version

go version go1.24rc2 linux/amd64

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

AR='ar'
CC='gcc'
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CXX='g++'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GO111MODULE=''
GOAMD64='v1'
GOARCH='amd64'
GOAUTH='netrc'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/home/jamie/.cache/go-build'
GOCACHEPROG=''
GODEBUG=''
GOENV='/home/jamie/.config/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFIPS140='off'
GOFLAGS=''
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build1856760023=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches'
GOHOSTARCH='amd64'
GOHOSTOS='linux'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMOD='/home/jamie/workspaces/dependency-management-data/go.mod'
GOMODCACHE='/home/jamie/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='linux'
GOPATH='/home/jamie/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/home/jamie/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.24rc2.linux-amd64'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/home/jamie/.config/go/telemetry'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/home/jamie/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.24rc2.linux-amd64/pkg/tool/linux_amd64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.24rc2'
GOWORK=''
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'

What did you do?

As noted in 99designs/gqlgen#3505 I'm trying out Go 1.24's go tool functionality with gqlgen.

This appears to only impact gqlgen, so may be an issue with them directly (99designs/gqlgen#3505) but it's unclear if that's the expectation of moving to go tool, and so I've raised it here to also see if there's anything the Go team are able to help with.

However, this also seems to be reproducible in Go 1.24rc2 (I have not tested previous RCs), so seems to be most likely due to changes in the Go toolchain.

I have created a branch on one of my projects here to indicate the changes and help test.

Using go tool

# from https://gitlab.com/tanna.dev/dependency-management-data/-/commits/spike/go-tools-124-gql
% cd internal/graph
% go tool github.com/99designs/gqlgen generate --verbose
% echo $?
1

Using go run

# from https://gitlab.com/tanna.dev/dependency-management-data/-/commits/spike/go-tools-124-gql
% cd internal/graph
% git reset --hard c5030b01 # make sure we don't have any `go tool` changes
% go get github.com/99designs/gqlgen@v0.17.49
% go run github.com/99designs/gqlgen generate
exit status 1

What did you see happen?

The go generate command fails with exit code 1 and no additional information

What did you expect to see?

The go generate command succeeds, or errors with more information.

[seankhliao]

I think whatever problem you're having is unrelated to go tool. Installing gqlgen directly and running it also results in a nonzero exit status with no output.

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[gabyhelp]

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[jamietanna]

Thanks Sean - the reason I'd raised this here is that this appears to be directly related to the changes in Go 1.24's go tool or go run caching - using go run which worked in Go 1.23 is now no longer working in Go 1.24rc2

[seankhliao]

gqlgen is depending on too old a version of x/tools to be compatible with the latest go, that's unrelated to go run / go tool.

[jamietanna]

Oh interesting, thank you - so bumping that should resolve this? I assume it's due to new directives that the old /x/tools can't understand