tailscale/tool/gocross/toolchain.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
package main
import (
"bytes"
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
"os"
"os/exec"
"path/filepath"
"runtime"
)
func toolchainRev() (string, error) {
// gocross gets built in the root of the repo that has toolchain
// information, so we can use os.Args[0] to locate toolchain info.
//
// We might be getting invoked via the synthetic goroot that we create, so
// walk symlinks to find the true location of gocross.
start, err := os.Executable()
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
start, err = filepath.EvalSymlinks(start)
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("evaluating symlinks in %q: %v", os.Args[0], err)
}
start = filepath.Dir(start)
d := start
findTopLevel:
for {
if _, err := os.Lstat(filepath.Join(d, ".git")); err == nil {
break findTopLevel
} else if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
return "", fmt.Errorf("finding .git: %v", err)
}
d = filepath.Dir(d)
if d == "/" {
return "", fmt.Errorf("couldn't find .git starting from %q, cannot manage toolchain", start)
}
}
return readRevFile(filepath.Join(d, "go.toolchain.rev"))
}
func readRevFile(path string) (string, error) {
bs, err := os.ReadFile(path)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
return string(bytes.TrimSpace(bs)), nil
}
func getToolchain() (toolchainDir, gorootDir string, err error) {
rev, err := toolchainRev()
if err != nil {
return "", "", err
}
homeDir, err := os.UserHomeDir()
if err != nil {
return "", "", err
}
// We use ".cache" instead of os.UserCacheDir for legacy reasons and we
// don't want to break that on platforms where the latter returns a different
// result.
cache := filepath.Join(homeDir, ".cache")
toolchainDir = filepath.Join(cache, "tsgo", rev)
gorootDir = filepath.Join(cache, "tsgoroot", rev)
// You might wonder why getting the toolchain also provisions and returns a
// path suitable for use as GOROOT. Wonder no longer!
//
// A bunch of our tests and build processes involve re-invoking 'go build'
// or other build-ish commands (install, run, ...). These typically use
// runtime.GOROOT + "bin/go" to get at the Go binary. Even more edge case-y,
// tailscale.com/cmd/tsconnect needs to fish a javascript glue file out of
// GOROOT in order to build the javascript bundle for serving.
//
// Gocross always does a -trimpath on builds for reproducibility, which
// wipes out the burned-in runtime.GOROOT value from the binary. This means
// that using gocross on these various test and build processes ends up
// breaking with mysterious path errors.
//
// We don't want to stop using -trimpath, or otherwise make GOROOT work in
// "normal" builds, because that is a footgun that lets people accidentally
// create assumptions that the build toolchain is still around at runtime.
// Instead, we want to make 'go test' and 'go run' have access to GOROOT,
// while still removing it from standalone binaries.
//
// So, construct and pass a GOROOT to the actual 'go' invocation, which lets
// tests and build processes locate and use GOROOT. For consistency, the
// GOROOT that's passed in is a symlink farm that mostly points to the
// toolchain's underlying GOROOT, but 'bin/go' points back to gocross. This
// means that if you invoke 'go test' via gocross, and that test tries to
// build code, that build will also end up using gocross.
if err := ensureToolchain(cache, toolchainDir); err != nil {
return "", "", err
}
if err := ensureGoroot(toolchainDir, gorootDir); err != nil {
return "", "", err
}
return toolchainDir, gorootDir, nil
}
func ensureToolchain(cacheDir, toolchainDir string) error {
stampFile := toolchainDir + ".extracted"
wantRev, err := toolchainRev()
if err != nil {
return err
}
gotRev, err := readRevFile(stampFile)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("reading stamp file %q: %v", stampFile, err)
}
if gotRev == wantRev {
// Toolchain already good.
return nil
}
if err := os.RemoveAll(toolchainDir); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := os.RemoveAll(stampFile); err != nil {
return err
}
if filepath.IsAbs(wantRev) {
// Local dev toolchain.
if err := os.Symlink(wantRev, toolchainDir); err != nil {
return err
}
return nil
} else {
if err := downloadCachedgo(toolchainDir, wantRev); err != nil {
return err
}
}
if err := os.WriteFile(stampFile, []byte(wantRev), 0644); err != nil {
return err
}
return nil
}
func ensureGoroot(toolchainDir, gorootDir string) error {
if _, err := os.Stat(gorootDir); err == nil {
return nil
} else if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
return err
}
return makeGoroot(toolchainDir, gorootDir)
}
func downloadCachedgo(toolchainDir, toolchainRev string) error {
url := fmt.Sprintf("https://github.com/tailscale/go/releases/download/build-%s/%s-%s.tar.gz", toolchainRev, runtime.GOOS, runtime.GOARCH)
archivePath := toolchainDir + ".tar.gz"
f, err := os.Create(archivePath)
if err != nil {
return err
}
resp, err := http.Get(url)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
return fmt.Errorf("failed to get %q: %v", url, resp.Status)
}
if _, err := io.Copy(f, resp.Body); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := os.MkdirAll(toolchainDir, 0755); err != nil {
return err
}
cmd := exec.Command("tar", "--strip-components=1", "-xf", archivePath)
cmd.Dir = toolchainDir
if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := os.RemoveAll(archivePath); err != nil {
return err
}
return nil
}