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Date: Fri,  2 Dec 2011 07:23:33 -0800
From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
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Cc: 9fans@9fans.net, lucio@proxima.alt.za
Subject: Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9
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erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> once said:
> > IMO using anything other than Make to build
> > the Go distribution is a fool's errand and
> > simply too much of a maintenance burden.
> > We would have to carefully watch upstream
> > changes to any of the many Makefiles.
> >
> > Using make isn't as bad as some make it out
> > to be and, to be clear, I'm only advocating
> > the use of make to build the distribution;
> > we can still add rules for building tools
> > or libraries written in Go to the standard
> > mkfiles in /sys/src.
>
> the camel has his nose in the tent.

This specific camel happens to be bearing
gifts on his nose.  I trust most 9fans to
keep the rest of him out. :-)

  Anthony