Please provide reproducible errors. For example,
[security] Go 1.13.7 and Go 1.12.16 are released
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/4uVpv5Zfxvo~$ git clone
https://github.com/golang/go --depth 1 -b release-branch.go1.12 go1.12
Cloning into 'go1.12'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 9305, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (9305/9305), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7682/7682), done.
remote: Total 9305 (delta 1465), reused 4643 (delta 1134), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (9305/9305), 21.22 MiB | 11.94 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1465/1465), done.
~$ cd go1.12/src
~/go1.12/src$ ./make.bash
Building Go cmd/dist using /home/peter/go1.4.
Building Go toolchain1 using /home/peter/go1.4.
Building Go bootstrap cmd/go (go_bootstrap) using Go toolchain1.
Building Go toolchain2 using go_bootstrap and Go toolchain1.
Building Go toolchain3 using go_bootstrap and Go toolchain2.
Building packages and commands for linux/amd64.
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Installed Go for linux/amd64 in /home/peter/go1.12
Installed commands in /home/peter/go1.12/bin
~/go1.12/src$ cd ../bin
~/go1.12/bin$ ./go version
go version go1.12.15 linux/amd64
~/go1.12/bin$