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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:37:10 -0700
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To:        bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
Cc:        "go@freebsd.org" <go@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [Bug 285963] lang/go* fail to build on the amd64 package builders
Message-ID:  <B2DCC160-B8F3-445F-9751-813C7A960BBE@iitbombay.org>
In-Reply-To: <bug-285963-42334-B6sWDRXBet@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
References:  <bug-285963-42334@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> <bug-285963-42334-B6sWDRXBet@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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On Apr 16, 2025, at 6:12 PM, bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org wrote:
> 
> 1. Patch cmd/go to run brandelf itself after it renames a.out to the
>   destination binary (the last step of the compilation chain).
> 2. Start discussing whether la57 was premature and needs to be rolled
>   back temporarily.

From https://github.com/golang/go/issues/49405#issuecomment-2802384059

>  Linux is much better about never breaking existing binaries, so any la57
>  support would require explicit opt-in by the binary.

This to me seems to be the best option. How many binaries would really
*require* 5 level page tables? opt-in seems better than opt-out!
FreeBSD used to be much better at maintaining backward compatibility....




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