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>

src/cmd/dist/buildruntime.go

@@ -16,12 +16,11 @@ import (
 
 // mkzversion writes zversion.go:
 //
-//	package runtime
+//	package sys
 //	const DefaultGoroot = <goroot>
 //	const TheVersion = <version>
 //	const Goexperiment = <goexperiment>
 //	const StackGuardMultiplier = <multiplier value>
-//	const BuildVersion = <build version>
 //
 func mkzversion(dir, file string) {
 	out := fmt.Sprintf(
@@ -32,8 +31,7 @@ func mkzversion(dir, file string) {
 			"const DefaultGoroot = `%s`\n"+
 			"const TheVersion = `%s`\n"+
 			"const Goexperiment = `%s`\n"+
-			"const StackGuardMultiplier = %d\n\n"+
-			"var BuildVersion = TheVersion\n", goroot_final, findgoversion(), os.Getenv("GOEXPERIMENT"), stackGuardMultiplier())
+			"const StackGuardMultiplier = %d\n\n", goroot_final, findgoversion(), os.Getenv("GOEXPERIMENT"), stackGuardMultiplier())
 
 	writefile(out, file, writeSkipSame)
 }

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"
 	}
 }