make build produces unrunnable Linux binary on OSX

[rosieyohannan]

Comment from Max from trello card: kubectl uses go env GOARCH and GOOS in its makefile so it detects the OS at run time. Unfortunately it doesn't quite spit out our current string, returning amd64-linux instead of x86_64-linux

[pwaller]

I don't quite understand the this issue as written.

How can I observe the issue for myself? I might sort of guess that it involves a version string being shown somewhere, perhaps reco? However, I don't see a version string with reco version.

@CampGareth

[CampGareth]

@pwaller iirc this is to do with the makefile setting linux as the default platform:

reco/Makefile

Line 11 in abaa911

TARGET := x86_64-linux

So if you are in the reco repo and run make build on your mac you will iirc end up with a linux binary that you cannot run.