Russ Cox

No change in consensus, so **[accepted](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#accepted)**. 🎉 This issue now tracks the work of implementing the proposal. — rsc for the proposal review group

@ianlancetaylor > I think it's pretty important that a Go binary installation work on a system with no C compiler installed. I would agree with you a priori, but as...

I think we can plausibly check in the relevant cgo-generated pieces for the few stdlib packages that need cgo. Then we wouldn't need a special case for "install runtime/cgo.a but...

My suggestion here would be to define that `go install x` only ever installs binaries, never .a files. That would change this from being about cmd/dist and the Go distribution...

Yes, buildmode=shared is dead and has been for a long time. Anyone using it must not be using modules. We could potentially do a special case in buildmode=shared for just...

This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://golang.org/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...

@mwhudson, do you know of any existing uses of -buildmode=shared and -linkshared anymore? We believe they have been broken since modules are introduced and are thinking about removing them. Thanks!

Based on the discussion above, this proposal seems like a **[likely accept](https://golang.org/s/proposal-status#likely-accept)**. — rsc for the proposal review group

No change in consensus, so **[accepted](https://golang.org/s/proposal-status#accepted)**. 🎉 This issue now tracks the work of implementing the proposal. — rsc for the proposal review group

This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...