> If all fails, you can try out what worked for me some time ago: Building the VERSION file is a minor glitch that seems too much bother to fix in any practical way: those who have HG installed would in any case not want it fixed :-(
On the other hand, applying the patch required (and probably by now insufficient) to compile Go for the ARM is hard to do without HG, so I suppose that says that we are a bit behind the curve. I'm hoping to do at least some of the necessary catching up now that Go 1.1 has been released, but of course the port to plan9/arm is only one of many issues put on hold ahead of the 1.1 release. Feel free to ontact me (at my Gmail address <lucio.d...@gmail.com>) if you have specific issues you want to discuss. Also, there are quite few developers lurking on go-nuts, that is a good place to make suggestions as well as to ask questions. ++L PS: The VERSION file is a permanent version of VERSION.cache that is generated by the more conventional Go builds. All Go builds delete VERSION.cache and create a fresh one, unless there is a VERSION file in which case the latter is used unchanged. What works for me is to share the GOROOT between NetBSD and Plan 9 and build the NetBSD version of Go first (I use "tip" normally). Before building on the Plan 9 servers, I rename $GOROOT/VERSION.cache to $GOROOT/VERSION. I am convinced that there isn't a mechanism that will please everyone; I'll be pleased to be proven wrong. Oh, I also need to delete VERSION before building on NetBSD and usually I forget to do it :-(
