Re: PATCH RFA: Add support for Go programming language

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:42:54PM CET:
> On 11/03/2010 11:38 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> >>  It otherwise seems low-danger to me, but
> >> I wouldn't want to move forward on the Libtool sister patch without this
> >> one cleared.
> > 
> > I'm at the point with my gcc patches where I kind of need an answer to
> > this question.  The question is: what name should we use in shell and
> > make to refer to the Go compiler?  I've been using GCCGO.  Should we
> > instead use GOC or GOCC or something else?  How can we decide this?
> 
> Personally, I'd like GOC mnemonic of Go-compiler (to match FC for
> Fortran-compiler, or CC for C compiler).

GOC is used now in the Libtool patch for Go support (which has a
replacement macro for AC_PROG_GO if that is not defined).

Cheers,
Ralf