Build failure on Debian Jessie

[davidl2]

Of commit 26cdb5c from git...

$ go version
go version go1.3.3 linux/386
$ go run bootstrap.go 
../../go/src/github.com/magefile/mage/mg/deps.go:4:2: cannot find package "context" in any of:
        /usr/lib/go/src/pkg/context (from $GOROOT)
        /home/dllamber/go/src/context (from $GOPATH)

Is a certain minimum version of go required to build? Or is a 64-bit platform required?

[natefinch]

Uh, well, go 1.3 is reaaaally old. go 1.3 was released in 2014.

The context package, which is what that error is complaining about, was introduced in go 1.7, which was released in 2016. It's used in almost every go product at this point.

You need to update your installed version of go.

Luckily, this is really safe, as there are almost never breaking changes in new versions of Go (although, upgrading 16 versions might have a small chance of breaking something).