mage: Skip Check on Go 1.8

See #3988

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/magefile.go b/magefile.go
index 25cf75cb0..31da50686 100644
--- a/magefile.go
+++ b/magefile.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -95,6 +96,12 @@ func Docker() error {
 
 // Run tests and linters
 func Check() {
+	if strings.Contains(runtime.Version(), "1.8") {
+		// Go 1.8 doesn't play along with go test ./... and /vendor.
+		// We could fix that, but that would take time.
+		fmt.Printf("Skip Check on %s\n", runtime.Version())
+		return
+	}
 	mg.Deps(Test386, Fmt, Vet)
 	// don't run two tests in parallel, they saturate the CPUs anyway, and running two
 	// causes memory issues in CI.