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I don’t use Homebrew, given that Go is now written in Go, how does Homebrew bootstrap it when there are no binaries available? Does it download Go 1.4, builds i

I don’t use Homebrew, given that Go is now written in Go, how does Homebrew bootstrap it when there are no binaries available? Does it download Go 1.4, builds it with a C compiler and uses that to build the latest version?

saagarjha 9y ago
Based on this[1] it appears to be running this[2] bootstrap script, which I believe uses make. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/go.rb https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/bootstrap.bash https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/bootstrap.bash