Bug#876639: libgo11: Please consider backport "libgo: use gc's arch names as the default GOARCHs on MIPS"

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 24.09.2017 11:36, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> Package: libgo11
> Version: 7.2.0-5
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
> X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Currently the pkg-go team uses gccgo to build Go packages on MIPS*
> archs. However currently version of gccgo has different GOARCH name for
> MIPS*.
> 
> Bug is reported at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18031
> And the fix is applied in trunk,
> https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/074bbd7b6a221b0446c73b3f4c2e1bf6cc7b2634
> 
> We currently need tricky way to build Go packages on MIPS*(as described
> in https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18031#issuecomment-318574018 )
> 
> So I think backport this fix in gccgo can be really helpful.

Is this commit good enough for the gcc-7-branch?

CCing Ian, if that could be backported in GCC to the gcc-7-branch.

Matthias