Building newer 'go' from source

From: Harlan Stenn <stenn_at_ntp.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 05:11:21 UTC
Hi,

Perhaps somebody can help me.

I need to build a recent version of 'go' from sources, and building it 
via ports/lang/go-devel (or related) is not an option.  I need to build 
it stand-alone.

In the past, I'd build go1.4-bootstrap-20171003 and then use that to 
build go-1.14.6.  Worked fine.

But now I need 1.23 (I'm trying 1.23.4), which needs 1.20.6 or later.

And 1.20.6 needs 1.17.3 or later.

And 1.17.3 is giving me a build problem...

So I went looking into ports/lang/go123 and ports/lang/go-devel and it 
does not look like y'all are stepping thru a number of versions of go to 
get to 1.23.

I'm crushed for time trying to get thru my "normal" pile of work, so if 
I can get any hints to help me to get 1.23.x built, I'd appreciate it.

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