bug#56680: go-1.16.15 build fails in check phase on powerpc64le

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 11:02:53PM +0200, Marcel van der Boom wrote:
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> [Efraim Flashner]:
> > I'm currently working on bootstrapping go-1.17.11 directly from gccgo,
> > so we'd be able to skip 1.16 entirely. Currently it works on
> > x86_64-linux but not on riscv64-linux. If you want to test something
> > like that on powerpc64le that'd be great.
> 
> Sure, can you point me in the right direction and get me started on what
> would be useful for you?

Looking at the package definitions for go it looks like the inputs and
native-inputs need to be cleaned up some, but for our purposes I think
just removing the native-inputs field completely from 1.17 should try to
make go-1.17 build with gccgo. Then try to build go@1.17.

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