From: William Hubbs <william.hubbs@sony.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:40:15 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: dev-lang/go: document the reason we download all bootstrap archives
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dev-lang/go: document the reason we download all bootstrap archives

Copyright: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.62, Repoman-2.3.12
Signed-off-by: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
---

diff --git a/dev-lang/go/go-1.12.1.ebuild b/dev-lang/go/go-1.12.1.ebuild
index 0a21a156b985..1426dfb091d9 100644
--- a/dev-lang/go/go-1.12.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/go/go-1.12.1.ebuild
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ MY_PV=${PV/_/}
 
 inherit toolchain-funcs
 
-BOOTSTRAP_DIST="https://dev.gentoo.org/~williamh/dist"
 BOOTSTRAP_VERSION="bootstrap-1.8"
+BOOTSTRAP_DIST="https://dev.gentoo.org/~williamh/dist"
 BOOTSTRAP_URI="
 	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-linux-amd64-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
 	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-linux-arm-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@ case ${PV}  in
 		;;
 	esac
 esac
+
+# If gccgo is not being used to build Go, there is no way to know the
+# architecture or operating system of the build machine, so we need to
+# download all of our bootstrap archives to allow this ebuild to work
+# under crossdev.
+#
+# https://bugs.gentoo.org/671394
 SRC_URI+="!gccgo? ( ${BOOTSTRAP_URI} )"
 
 DESCRIPTION="A concurrent garbage collected and typesafe programming language"