[pkg-go] Thoughts on the golang-go package for arm64?

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

arm64 support is new in 1.5, which afaik isn't in debian yet. It can
be bootstrapped with gccgo, which is what we did for Ubuntu:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/wily/+source/golang

(based on stuff that Tianon and Paul did).

Cheers,
mwh

On 9 September 2015 at 19:10, Potter, Tim (Cloud Services)
<timothy.potter at hpe.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone.  I’m curious about the status of Go for arm64.  According to d/control there is a pkg-golang-devel address on alioth, but the archives seem pretty empty.  Also the uploaders are basically the usual suspects on this list.  (-:
>
> I believe there is some kind of self-hosted building arrangement with the latest version of Go, so it might be a bit tricky to get the initial arm64 version going.  I have access to some actual arm64 hardware and have also successfully debugged packaging problems using the qemu-system-aarch64 and some chroot, although this is pretty slow.
>
>
> Tim.
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