Thank you David for the binaries. On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 1:38 AM Lucio De Re <lucio.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In fact, I'd forgotten I'd had an exchange with a Go developer (I wish > I could remember who) precisely over that "bootstrap" issue. Go1.4.3 > needs a small enhancement, I forget from which target onwards because > of some executable binary improvement even for Linux. But the > bootstrap version is the recommended one, recently, as I mentioned. > > Here is Brad's message: > > --- cut --- > You'll want to use the release-branch.go1.4 branch, not Go 1.4.3. > > See https://golang.org/doc/install/source#go14 which says: > > > To build a bootstrap toolchain from source, use either the git branch > release-branch.go1.4 or go1.4-bootstrap-20171003.tar.gz, which contains the > Go 1.4 source code plus accumulated fixes to keep the tools running on > newer operating systems. (Go 1.4 was the last distribution in which the > toolchain was written in C.) After unpacking the Go 1.4 source, cd to the > src subdirectory, set CGO_ENABLED=0 in the environment, and run make.bash > (or, on Windows, make.bat). > > --- cut --- > > On 10/7/19, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'd recommend bootstrapping Go with one of > > the recent binary package available on: > > > > http://9legacy.org/download.html > > > > There might be issues when bootstrapping from Go 1.4. > > Also, plan9/arm support started with Go 1.7. > > > > -- > > David du Colombier > > > > > > > -- > Lucio De Re > 2 Piet Retief St > Kestell (Eastern Free State) > 9860 South Africa > > Ph.: +27 71 471 3694 > Cell: +27 83 251 5824 > >
