Gentoo emerge GO lang failed – atomic_amd64x.go: too many errors

Upgrading GO lang under Gentoo maybe a little bit tricky. The upgrading go lang from 1.13.7 to 1.15.5 failed with strange error:

# runtime/internal/atomic
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:18:6: Load redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64.go:16:24
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:24:6: Loadp redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64.go:22:32
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:30:6: Load64 redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64.go:28:26
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:36:6: LoadAcq redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64.go:34:27
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:41:6: Xadd redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64.go:39:37
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:44:6: Xadd64 redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64.go:42:39
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:47:6: Xadduintptr redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64.go:45:47
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:50:6: Xchg redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64.go:48:36
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:53:6: Xchg64 redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64.go:51:38
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:56:6: Xchguintptr redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64.go:54:45
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/internal/atomic/atomic_amd64x.go:56:6: too many errors

Googling a little bit and it appeared there might be a conflict with the old version in the same directory. Deleting the temporary build directory didn’t help…

Removing the GO lang package by unmerge command and then emerging the newest GO lang package is successful.

So the solution is to unmerge it and then immediately emerge the newest version with:

emerge -vC dev-lang/go
emerge -v dev-lang/go

The whole Gentoo output of the failed emerge command

Keep on reading!