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    cmd/dist, cmd/go: treat cmd/cgo like other build tools · 555c16d8
    Russ Cox authored
    The primary build tools cmd/asm, cmd/compile, and cmd/link are
    built during cmd/dist bootstrap and then assumed by cmd/go to
    be available for any future builds.
    
    The only tool invoked by cmd/go during a build and not in this list
    is cmd/cgo; instead of being built during cmd/dist and assumed by
    cmd/go, cmd/go arranges to build cmd/cgo if needed as part of
    the regular build. We got here because at the time cmd/go was written,
    cmd/cgo was the only build tool written in Go (the others were in C),
    and so it made some sense to put cmd/dist in charge of building
    the C tools and to have custom code in cmd/go to build cmd/cgo
    just in time for it to be used by a particular build.
    
    This custom code has historically been quite subtle, though, because
    the build of cmd/cgo inherits whatever build flags apply to the
    build that wants to use cmd/cgo. If you're not careful,
    "go install -race strings" might under the wrong circumstances
    also install a race-enabled cmd/cgo binary, which is unexpected
    at the least.
    
    The custom code is only going to get more problematic as we
    move toward more precise analysis of whether dependencies are
    up-to-date. In that case, "go build -race strings" will check to
    see if there is not just a cmd/cgo already but a race-enabled
    cmd/cgo, which makes no sense.
    
    Instead of perpetuating the special case, treat cgo like all the
    other build tools: build it first in cmd/dist, and then assume it is present.
    This simplifies cmd/go.
    
    Building cmd/cgo during bootstrap also allows the default
    build of cmd/cgo to be built using cgo, which may be necessary
    on future essentially-cgo-only systems.
    
    Change-Id: I414e22c10c9920f4e98f97fa35ff22058c0f143d
    Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/68338
    Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
    Reviewed-by: 's avatarDavid Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
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