Getting error " not enough arguments in call to s.statsd.SendLoop" when running "go build" command - hyperledger-fabric

Question

I'm trying to run go build command for my project but it exits with below error.
alpha#GHOST-RIDER:~/GoWorkspace/src/github.com/hyperledger/firstproject$ go build
# github.com/hyperledger/fabric-sdk-go/internal/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/operations
../fabric-sdk-go/internal/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/operations/system.go:227:23: not enough arguments in call to s.statsd.SendLoop
have (<-chan time.Time, string, string)
want (context.Context, <-chan time.Time, string, string)
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

As per code fabric is using the different version of this library: github.com/go-kit/kit/metrics/statsd. If you follow the System struct's statsd attribute, you can reach the reference on imports.
In master branch of this lib, SendLoop function requires 4 attributes, so that's the root cause. So this causes error when you compile on your local environment.
I had the same issue and worked around it by checking out a tag of library as below:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/go-kit/kit
git fetch --tags
git checkout v0.8.0

Answer 2

found a solution on the hyperledger-fabric-go-sdk group chat.
Add context.Background() in s.statsd.SendLoop like below
s.statsd.SendLoop(context.Background(), s.sendTicker.C, network, address)
in fabric-sdk-go/internal/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/operations/system.go file at line 227.

Answer 3

I had a same issue, my solution worked and don't need edit fabric source code.
specify github.com/go-kit/kit to v0.8.0, modify go.mod:
replace github.com/go-kit/kit => github.com/go-kit/kit v0.8.0 // you specific version
require (
... ...
// Maybe other version, go mod tidy update automatically, don't care it.
github.com/go-kit/kit v0.9.0 // indirect
... ...
)
then it worked.