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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  2 Dec 2011 09:57:25 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9
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> 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.

- erik