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+# This recipe builds a native Go (written in Go) by first building an old Go 1.4
+# (written in C). However this old Go does not support all hosts platforms.
+
+require go-${PV}.inc
+
+inherit native
+
+SRC_URI:append = " https://dl.google.com/go/go1.4-bootstrap-20171003.tar.gz;name=bootstrap;subdir=go1.4"
+SRC_URI[bootstrap.sha256sum] = "f4ff5b5eb3a3cae1c993723f3eab519c5bae18866b5e5f96fe1102f0cb5c3e52"
+
+export GOOS = "${BUILD_GOOS}"
+export GOARCH = "${BUILD_GOARCH}"
+CC = "${@d.getVar('BUILD_CC').strip()}"
+
+GOMAKEARGS ?= "--no-banner"
+
+do_configure() {
+	cd ${WORKDIR}/go1.4/go/src
+	CGO_ENABLED=0 GOROOT=${WORKDIR}/go1.4/go ./make.bash
+}
+
+do_compile() {
+	export GOROOT_FINAL="${libdir_native}/go"
+	export GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP="${WORKDIR}/go1.4/go"
+
+	cd src
+	./make.bash ${GOMAKEARGS}
+	cd ${B}
+}
+do_compile[cleandirs] += "${GOTMPDIR} ${B}/bin"
+
+make_wrapper() {
+	rm -f ${D}${bindir}/$2$3
+	cat <<END >${D}${bindir}/$2$3
+#!/bin/bash
+here=\`dirname \$0\`
+export GOROOT="${GOROOT:-\`readlink -f \$here/../lib/go\`}"
+\$here/../lib/go/bin/$1 "\$@"
+END
+	chmod +x ${D}${bindir}/$2
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	install -d ${D}${libdir}/go
+	cp --preserve=mode,timestamps -R ${B}/pkg ${D}${libdir}/go/
+	install -d ${D}${libdir}/go/src
+	(cd ${S}/src; for d in *; do \
+		[ -d $d ] && cp -a ${S}/src/$d ${D}${libdir}/go/src/; \
+	done)
+	find ${D}${libdir}/go/src -depth -type d -name testdata -exec rm -rf {} \;
+	install -d ${D}${bindir} ${D}${libdir}/go/bin
+	for f in ${B}/bin/*
+	do
+		base=`basename $f`
+		install -m755 $f ${D}${libdir}/go/bin
+		make_wrapper $base $base
+	done
+}