New comment by arp242 on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/32016#issuecomment-882004814 Comment: > Your commit should document that Go 1.12, which we use for bootstrap and therefore matters re. what options the compiler can be built with, is from 2019 and new enough. I don't really follow what you mean with that? As in, I understand the go-bootstrap package, but I don't follow how this relates to this change/commit? We don't really build anything with Go directly, it just uses the `make.bash` script (which assumes Go 1.4). As for the pre-built stdlib, personally I don't really see a reason to ship it; especially for containers etc. it's comparatively large, and unlike Python's .pyc files they can just be generated as-needed, which also keeps all the Go cache in one place which is kinda nice IMO. We'd have to add back `nostrip` back with the manual strip call if we do decide to add it btw, as the strip hook will try and fail to strip those `.a` files.