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| author | Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> | 2023-02-13 16:32:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> | 2023-02-14 13:59:05 +0200 |
| commit | 542fcc3dfef4e3f1dc7a61cedf6f1fde6ad7ba4d (patch) | |
| tree | 08018e4a323abfccd4b43f46e9ba963c75ab308d /gnu/packages | |
| parent | 024a8b39957203f3a3cb93c87746c35635b81e57 (diff) | |
gnu: golang.scm: Update comment about bootstrapping go.
* gnu/packages/golang.scm: Update the comment at the top of the file
about bootstrapping go on different architectures and about which
versions of gccgo are currently provided.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/golang.scm | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/golang.scm b/gnu/packages/golang.scm index 07e4c9ed22..8dfcca5ccf 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/golang.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/golang.scm @@ -93,13 +93,11 @@ #:use-module (ice-9 match) #:use-module (srfi srfi-1)) -;; According to https://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo, gccgo-4.8.2 includes a -;; complete go-1.1.2 implementation, gccgo-4.9 includes a complete go-1.2 -;; implementation, and gccgo-5 a complete implementation of go-1.4. Ultimately -;; we hope to build go-1.5+ with a bootstrap process using gccgo-5. As of -;; go-1.5, go cannot be bootstrapped without go-1.4, so we need to use go-1.4 or -;; gccgo-5. Mips is not officially supported, but it should work if it is -;; bootstrapped. +;; According to https://go.dev/doc/install/gccgo, gccgo-11 includes a complete +;; implementation of go-1.16 and gccgo-12 includes a complete implementation of +;; go-1.18. Starting with go-1.5 go cannot be built without an existing +;; installation of go, so we need to use go-1.4 or gccgo. For architectures which +;; are not supported with go-1.4 we use a version of gccgo to bootstrap them. (define-public go-1.4 (package |