Thanks for the info!

Kind regards,
Howard

On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 12:15:46 UTC+1, Dave Cheney wrote:
>
> Until recently some functions in the os/user package were only available 
> via glibc.
>
> The net package links to cgo by default to pick up the nss libraries, 
> which are important if your installation uses ldap. 
>
> I argued that this should not be the default in the 1.5 release, that most 
> users deploying on Linux expected a static binary by default, however my 
> arguments were not sufficiently convincing. 
>
> The tldr is rationale for the linking behaviour of a go binary is 
> implantation defined, and the go authors choose to make their 
> implementation use cgo where available. 
>
>

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