cmd/dist, runtime: make runtime version available as runtime.buildVersion

So that there is a uniformed way to retrieve Go version from a Go
binary, starting from Go 1.4 (see https://golang.org/cl/117040043)

Updates #13507.

Change-Id: Iaa2b14fca2d8c4d883d3824e2efc82b3e6fe2624
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/17459
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/runtime/proc.go b/src/runtime/proc.go
index d75af10206..04e4c7c548 100644
--- a/src/runtime/proc.go
+++ b/src/runtime/proc.go
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import (
 	"unsafe"
 )
 
+var buildVersion = sys.TheVersion
+
 // Goroutine scheduler
 // The scheduler's job is to distribute ready-to-run goroutines over worker threads.
 //
@@ -445,10 +447,10 @@ func schedinit() {
 		throw("unknown runnable goroutine during bootstrap")
 	}
 
-	if sys.BuildVersion == "" {
+	if buildVersion == "" {
 		// Condition should never trigger.  This code just serves
 		// to ensure runtime·buildVersion is kept in the resulting binary.
-		sys.BuildVersion = "unknown"
+		buildVersion = "unknown"
 	}
 }