On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Lucio De Re <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote: > No, and no "yuck", either: Go executables are different animals and > they are allowed to be identified as such. Until they are not, when > they are allowed to become the same animal. > snip... > > And maybe it's just me being uninformed, but I have this suspicion that > you need a Go toolchain with Plan 9 targets to produce Plan 9 executables. > Maybe I should phrase this as a question: does the default Go toolchain > produce Plan 9 executables or is a separate toolchain required for it? > I'm pretty certain there's a need for two toolchains, but I'll be very > happy to be proven wrong (and Ron right, of course).
The vanilla Go distribution will produce ELF executables on Linux/FreeBSD/Darwin when the GOOS is set accordingly. If GOOS is set to plan9, 8l will produce a real Plan 9 a.out executable (it might complain it cannot find runtime and other packages unless you follow the procedure to build them). Pavel
