[OE-core] [PATCH V7] go: Add recipes for golang compilers and tools

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:03 PM, Kristian Amlie
<kristian.amlie at mender.io> wrote:
> On 08/03/17 23:19, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> ...
>>> For the following go-1.4 recipes:
>>>
>>> I wouldn't recommend fixing go-native at version 1.4, which is now
>>> postiviely ancient.
>>> Instead, add go1.4.3's SRC_URI into the go-native recipe, loading it
>>> in the right place so
>>> that make.bash finds it.  This way, you can have all the go toolchain
>>> recipes build at the
>>> same version.  The go team only supports go1.4 for bootstrapping the
>>> compiler build now
>>> anyway, IIRC.
>>
>> since we do not use go-native for anything other than bootstrapping
>> right now, thats why it is there. there is no intent of providing a
>> go-native version for general consumption
>
> Just FYI, in Mender we use the latest go-native, provided by
> github.com/mem/oe-meta-go, to compile some build tools. The layer has a
> separate go-bootstrap recipe, which is locked to 1.4, for the purpose of
> creating go-native and go-cross.

Thanks for info. we should add it here as well.

>
> --
> Kristian