[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] Add go target support

[Geoff Levand]

Hi,

On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 23:51 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 19:23:33 +0000, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > Add the needed bits to build a go compiler for the target.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>
> 
> We don't support or want to support doing development on the target, so
> I think the target variant of the go compiler is not needed.
> 
> See
> https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#faq-no-compiler-on-target
> for more details.

If I have read the above document correctly the primary reason
for not having a target side toolchain was concerns
of complexity and maintanence.  I don't think that is the
case with this go package.

My motovation for having a target go is to include the go
tools that can be used for debugging go programs, etc.
Also, for minimal systems it is common to have a Linux
container with the just the go compiler in it, and then
only loading that container when installing a go
program from source.  By having a target go compiler
such a container can be build from buildroot.

See https://hub.docker.com/_/golang/

-Geoff