Based on golang mailing list discussions, I do believe that the intent is to have something like goinstall be the build tool for go, but I could have misinterpreted what I read.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 07:32, Lucio De Re <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote: >> just take unsuitable things out of the mkfiles, since no other system >> is using those. > > I was discussing with Ron the fact that in the longer term goinstall > ought to supersede both gmake (at last!) and mk, in building Go. I > guess it needs to deal with situations like the present one kind of a > priori. > > ++L > > > -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson