From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za (Lucio De Re)
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:20:59 +0200
Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work
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> sorry, I never tried cross-compiling. I started here:
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler#GCC_and_cross_compilation, and
>  http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~milom/cross-compile.html
> 
> what should be switch --target=some-target set to?
> 
>>  your best bet is to cross-compile on Linux. set GOOS to plan9 and GOARCH
>> to 386.
>>
>>

Much easier than with GCC:

$ export GOOS=plan9
$ export GOARCH=386
$ 8g -o _go_.8 mod-1.go mod-2.go ...
$ 8l -o 8.out _go_.8

But you do need the runtime and packages compiled for Plan 9
($GOROOT/pkg/plan9_386/* is where they will live).  That is what I
find harder to generate from the HG tip.

++L