https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64595

--- Comment #3 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> ---
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, ian at airs dot com wrote:

> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64595
> 
> --- Comment #2 from Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com> ---
> Right, cgo is not run directly.  It is run by the go tool.  It is in effect an
> internal program like cc1.

Ah - the README didn't say that.

> The version suffix should be fine if libexecsubdir in libgo matches
> libexecsubdir in gotools, as the go tool will locate cgo via the variable
> theGccgoToolDir written to version.go by libgo/Makefile.  I'll see if that
> works with --enable-versions-specific-runtime-libs.

Any example use that will end up executing cgo so I can check it out 
locally?

> The docs are online at http://golang.org/cmd/{go,gofmt,cgo} which is where 
> most
> people read them.    The docs come from the program source
> (libgo/go/cmd/*/doc.go).  The programs also have -help options.  Would you 
> like
> me to add small man pages that direct people to the web pages?

Yes, that would be convenient!  (obviously cgo doesn't need a manpage 
then)

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