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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2020-10-12 21:14:03 -0400
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2020-10-17 09:39:10 +0700
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development/google-go-lang: Fix README.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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-The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more
-productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency
-mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and
-networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular
-program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the
-convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a
-fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed,
-interpreted language.
+The Go programming language is an open source project to make
+programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean,
+and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write
+programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines,
+while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program
+construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the
+convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time
+reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that
+feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
The tools are added to the path by putting go.sh and go.csh files in
-/etc/profile.d and letting the system's /etc/profile or /etc/csh.login pick it
-up. If you want to add any of Go's environment variables you can add them
-there.
+/etc/profile.d and letting the system's /etc/profile or /etc/csh.login
+pick it up. If you want to add any of Go's environment variables you
+can add them there.
-Also, to easily setup a user-independent path for Go libraries to be installed
-to and used, is the GOPATH environment variable. This variable can be colon
-delimited. For example, once installing the built google-go-lang package, then
-set in your user's ~/.bashrc something like:
+Also, to easily setup a user-independent path for Go libraries to
+be installed to and used, is the GOPATH environment variable. This
+variable can be colon delimited. For example, once installing the
+built google-go-lang package, then set in your user's ~/.bashrc
+something like:
export GOPATH="$HOME"
-Then, you'll be able to use the `go` command to install an additional library
-that will not need root permission and will be in the compiler's path.
-Like so:
+Then, you'll be able to use the `go` command to install an additional
+library that will not need root permission and will be in the
+compiler's path. Like so:
go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc
-Now in ~/src you'll have this source code checked-out, and a binary built at
-~/bin/godoc
+Now in ~/src you'll have this source code checked-out, and a binary
+built at ~/bin/godoc
-Since the golang idiom is very `go get'able as a limited user, installed
-libraries from slackbuilds.org are located outside of GOROOT (which is only for
-golang standard library), in /usr/share/gocode
-By not setting a system-wide GOPATH defaulting to this location, then it is up
-to the user of whether to include this system path as well, like:
+Since the golang idiom is very `go get'able as a limited user,
+installed libraries from slackbuilds.org are located outside of GOROOT
+(which is only for golang standard library), in /usr/share/gocode By
+not setting a system-wide GOPATH defaulting to this location, then
+it is up to the user of whether to include this system path as well,
+like:
export GOPATH="$HOME:/usr/share/gocode"
-This system source directory is primarly only for buildtime of slackbuilds.
+This system source directory is primarly only for buildtime of
+slackbuilds.
-This is because `go get' iterates through the paths provided, looking for
-matching imports. If a match is not found, then is cloned to the first path
-provided. You would not want this to be a system path, as to need root
-privilege to clone source.
+This is because `go get' iterates through the paths provided, looking
+for matching imports. If a match is not found, then is cloned to the
+first path provided. You would not want this to be a system path, as
+to need root privilege to clone source.
-As of go1.2, the 'go doc ...' command has been relocated to the go.tools
-library (golang-googlecode-gotools), which provide `godoc`.
+As of go1.2, the 'go doc ...' command has been relocated to the
+go.tools library (golang-googlecode-gotools), which provide `godoc`.
-As of go1.5, shared libraries are now supported. The flags to use linking are
-available for `go get`, `go install` and `go build`.
+As of go1.5, shared libraries are now supported. The flags to use
+linking are available for `go get`, `go install` and `go build`.
To learn more see `go help buildmode`.
-
-To elect to run the buildtime tests of this package, provide the environment
-variable RUN_TEST=true at build time.
+To elect to run the buildtime tests of this package, provide the
+environment variable RUN_TEST=true at build time.