mirror of https://go.googlesource.com/go
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This program, dist, is the bootstrapping tool for the Go distribution.
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As of Go 1.5, dist and other parts of the compiler toolchain are written
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in Go, making bootstrapping a little more involved than in the past.
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The approach is to build the current release of Go with an earlier one.
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The process to install Go 1.x, for x ≥ 22, is:
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1. Build cmd/dist with Go 1.20.6.
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2. Using dist, build Go 1.x compiler toolchain with Go 1.20.6.
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3. Using dist, rebuild Go 1.x compiler toolchain with itself.
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4. Using dist, build Go 1.x cmd/go (as go_bootstrap) with Go 1.x compiler toolchain.
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5. Using go_bootstrap, build the remaining Go 1.x standard library and commands.
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Because of backward compatibility, although the steps above say Go 1.20.6,
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in practice any release ≥ Go 1.20.6 but < Go 1.x will work as the bootstrap base.
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Releases ≥ Go 1.x are very likely to work as well.
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See https://go.dev/s/go15bootstrap for more details about the original bootstrap
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and https://go.dev/issue/54265 for details about later bootstrap version bumps.
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