[OE-core] [PATCH] go: Allow bootstrapping using host go compiler

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Fri Apr 12 19:10:23 UTC 2019


On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 02:26:20PM -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
>...
> In the long run, don't we want to avoid any new binaries or host tools? Is
> anyone else in the go community (Debian maybe?) interested in
> bootstrapping go on arm64 hosts or do they all just use the binary?
>...

Binary distributions like Debian have to bootstrap compilers only
once per architecture.

After the initial bootstrap there is always the previous version package 
in the distribution that can be used to build the next version.

cu
Adrian

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