go version seems broken somehow...

[rayjlinden]

Go version

1.23.6

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

GO111MODULE=''
GOARCH='amd64'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/home/rayj/.cache/go-build'
GOENV='/home/rayj/.config/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS=''
GOHOSTARCH='amd64'
GOHOSTOS='linux'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/var/tmp/rayj/gocode/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY='github.com/lindenlab/*'
GONOSUMDB='github.com/lindenlab/*'
GOOS='linux'
GOPATH='/var/tmp/rayj/gocode'
GOPRIVATE='github.com/lindenlab/*'
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/var/tmp/rayj/gocode/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.22.4.linux-amd64'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='go1.22.4'
GOTOOLDIR='/var/tmp/rayj/gocode/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.22.4.linux-amd64/pkg/tool/linux_amd64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.22.4'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GOAMD64='v1'
AR='ar'
CC='gcc'
CXX='g++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/dev/null'
GOWORK=''
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build3428743121=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches'

What did you do?

I just installed go 1.23.6 (replacing go1.22.4). However the NEW binary still reports the old version!!!

What did you see happen?

rayj@bullseye(gobuild123)$ go version
go version go1.22.4 linux/amd64
rayj@bullseye(gobuild123)$ which go
/var/tmp/mw_pkgs/go/bin/go
rayj@bullseye(gobuild123)$ go version /var/tmp/mw_pkgs/go/bin/go
/var/tmp/mw_pkgs/go/bin/go: go1.23.6

I also see the go env command returns GOVERSION='go1.22.4' among all the other vars.

This never used to happen during previous upgrades so this is rather confusing...

Why would the go binary return an old version number?

What did you expect to see?

I expect go version to return:
go version go1.23.6 linux/amd64

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues

• cmd/go/internal/bug: use the go tool in GOROOT to report go version and go ev #45708 (closed)
• cmd/bug: gotip bug reports the GOVERSION from the version of go installed in the system #45521 (closed)
• cmd/go: "go bug" in build on different branch reports version different than "go version" #43981 (closed)
• x/tools/cmd/getgo: uses incorrect "latest" url #42676 (closed)
• x/tools/internal/versions: malformed module path "go/version": missing dot in first path element #64490 (closed)
• affected/package: wrong version in terminal go v1.20 #58289 (closed)
• cmd/go: automatic toolchain upgrades make the combination of `go version` and `go install <package>@<version>` confusing #66518
• website: go1.22.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz contains wrong go version (go1.21.4) #65837 (closed)
• cmd/go: breakage with go version command and GOFLAGS environment variable #41264 (closed)
• cmd/go/internal/bug: the implementation should have more comments #45803 (closed)

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[seankhliao]

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