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Rakshith
Rakshith

Reputation: 31

Building a custom terraform provider errors out

I am hitting this error while i try to compile GO code 

[root@scsor0014444001 Netapp]# go build -o terraform-provider-xxxx
# github.com/hashicorp/terraform/config
../go/src/github.com/hashicorp/terraform/config/testing.go:9: t.Helper undefined (type *testing.T has no field or method Helper)

[root@scsor0014444001 Netapp]# go version
go version go1.8.3 linux/amd64

Can someone help me in understanding whats wrong here ?

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 402

Answers (1)

Martin Atkins
Martin Atkins

Reputation: 74109

As of the 0.10.3 release, Terraform core now requires Go 1.9 due to the use of the new "test helper" feature.

Since providers depend on some packages from the core system as libraries, this dependency is unfortunately then inherited by the providers too. If you're using vendoring to make Terraform core available to the provider (recommended!) then you can potentially wind back the vendored version to the final commit before this change in order to build with 1.8, though over time this strategy will of course cause the vendored package to fall behind the latest changes.

Upgrading Go to 1.9 should address this in a more permanent way.

Upvotes: 1

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