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x/build: get Alpine builders passing

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#19,938 opened on Apr 12, 2017

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Description

Thanks to @jessfraz's setting up an Alpine Linux builder (#17891), we now get to deal with more bugs, like this one:

https://build.golang.org/log/09a1850a53ff39d403984ecc8c29114ecd0a4109

--- FAIL: TestCgoPprofPIE (8.39s)
	crash_cgo_test.go:285: signal: segmentation fault (core dumped)
FAIL
FAIL	runtime	16.270s

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Investigate the TestCgoPprofPIE test failure on Alpine Linux; trace the segmentation fault to root cause. Check CGO and PIE compile flags.
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