Thank you David for the binaries.

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 1:38 AM Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com> wrote:

> In fact, I'd forgotten I'd had an exchange with a Go developer (I wish
> I could remember who) precisely over that "bootstrap" issue. Go1.4.3
> needs a small enhancement, I forget from which target onwards because
> of some executable binary improvement even for Linux. But the
> bootstrap version is the recommended one, recently, as I mentioned.
>
> Here is Brad's message:
>
> --- cut ---
> You'll want to use the release-branch.go1.4 branch, not Go 1.4.3.
>
> See https://golang.org/doc/install/source#go14 which says:
>
> > To build a bootstrap toolchain from source, use either the git branch
> release-branch.go1.4 or go1.4-bootstrap-20171003.tar.gz, which contains the
> Go 1.4 source code plus accumulated fixes to keep the tools running on
> newer operating systems. (Go 1.4 was the last distribution in which the
> toolchain was written in C.) After unpacking the Go 1.4 source, cd to the
> src subdirectory, set CGO_ENABLED=0 in the environment, and run make.bash
> (or, on Windows, make.bat).
>
> --- cut ---
>
> On 10/7/19, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd recommend bootstrapping Go with one of
> > the recent binary package available on:
> >
> > http://9legacy.org/download.html
> >
> > There might be issues when bootstrapping from Go 1.4.
> > Also, plan9/arm support started with Go 1.7.
> >
> > --
> > David du Colombier
> >
> >
>
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