Re: [go-nuts] Compiling very old version of Golang...

2016-07-05 Thread Mike Lee
fascinating, thanks rob :) On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 1:02:50 AM UTC+10, Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote: > > There was very little code Go code in the early days. This was bootstrap > time. The path was, by hand: run the compiler, run the linker, run the > binary. Makefiles showed up when there w

Re: [go-nuts] Compiling very old version of Golang...

2016-07-05 Thread Rob Pike
There was very little code Go code in the early days. This was bootstrap time. The path was, by hand: run the compiler, run the linker, run the binary. Makefiles showed up when there was enough of a library to make one worth writing, and went away as soon as was feasible, when the go tool showed up