cmd/dist: fetch version when needed, instead of at init
Currently, if there is a VERSION.cache, running make.bash will set
runtime.theVersion to the revision as of the *last* make.bash run
instead of the current make.bash run.
For example,
$ git rev-parse --short HEAD
5c4a86d
$ ./make.bash
...
$ cat ../VERSION.cache
devel +
5c4a86d Tue Feb 10 01:46:30 2015 +0000
$ git checkout
a1dbb92
$ ./make.bash
...
$ go version
go version devel +
5c4a86d Tue Feb 10 01:46:30 2015 +0000 linux/amd64
$ ./make.bash
...
$ go version
go version devel +
a1dbb92 Tue Feb 10 02:31:27 2015 +0000 linux/amd64
This happens because go tool dist reads the potentially stale
VERSION.cache into goversion during early initialization; then cleans,
which deletes VERSION.cache; then builds the runtime using the stale
revision read in to goversion. It isn't until make later in the build
process, when make.bash invokes go tool dist again, that VERSION.cache
gets updated with the current revision.
To address this, simply don't bother fetching the version until go
tool dist needs it and don't bother caching the value in memory. This
is more robust since it interacts with cleaning in the expected ways.
Futhermore, there's no downside to eliminating the in-memory cache;
the file system cache is perfectly reasonable for the whole three
times make.bash consults it.
Change-Id: I8c480100e56bb2db0816e8a088177004d9e87973
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/4540
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>