[Bug 652987] Review Request: go - The Go programming language

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--- Comment #26 from Ed Marshall <esm+redhat at logic.net> 2011-01-27 20:56:22 EST ---
The static libraries you're seeing are most likely the go runtime (used for
linking at compile-time). They're required to build anything useful with Go;
distributing them separately would just cripple the primary package. The Go
build system doesn't support building and linking packages (ie. the runtime) as
shared libraries yet, and according to Ian a few days ago, it isn't even on the
roadmap right now:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/LGk2Fw1EGY4/1UB88cSJClYJ

The statically-linked binaries you called out are actually written in Go, and
are not linked against system libraries, but are instead linked against the
static libraries above.

So in both cases, Go is behaving as designed. :) Remember, this is a complete
compiler toolchain, it's not a typical application.

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