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Date: Tue,  5 Apr 2011 09:37:03 +0300
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From: Pavel Zholkover <paulzhol@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> No, and no "yuck", either: Go executables are different animals and
> they are allowed to be identified as such. =C2=A0Until they are not, when
> they are allowed to become the same animal.
> snip...
>
> And maybe it's just me being uninformed, but I have this suspicion that
> you need a Go toolchain with Plan 9 targets to produce Plan 9 executables=
.
> Maybe I should phrase this as a question: does the default Go toolchain
> produce Plan 9 executables or is a separate toolchain required for it?
> I'm pretty certain there's a need for two toolchains, but I'll be very
> happy to be proven wrong (and Ron right, of course).

The vanilla Go distribution will produce ELF executables on
Linux/FreeBSD/Darwin when the GOOS is set accordingly. If GOOS is set
to plan9, 8l will produce a real Plan 9 a.out executable (it might
complain it cannot find runtime and other packages unless you follow
the procedure to build them).

Pavel