Re: go-build-system possible improvments

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi François,

François <francois-oss@avalenn.eu> writes:

> Hello Maxim,
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:00:15PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> That's exactly what we're doing now (disable Go module with
>> GO11MODULE=off and use GOPATH to find the sources).  Debian does
>> something lazy like just calling 'go module vendor', which builds a huge
>> directory filled with all the sources needed.  So does Nix.  Only Gentoo
>> goes to some length, from what I had seen last I check.
>
> Do you have some links to share on how Gentoo does it?

I think I ended up looking in their git repo, but otherwise there's this
page for their go-module.eclass module:
https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/go-module.eclass/index.html.

HTH,

Maxim