[thomashabets2]

I can't even begin to comprehend how you got from here to there.

I encourage you to elaborate on how you think that's connected, and not make a strawman argument. You may have not done so deliberately, but if you can't begin to comprehend that I would mean what you said, then you could give me the benefit of doubt and maybe entertain the idea that I did not.

Edit: In my blog post I give the example of getpwnam_r. One should not check for if the OS is Solaris in a given version range, but if getpwnam_r is one or the other type.

[hu3]

No language is going to do that for you. And I don't think Go promissed otherwise.

Perhaps it's about managing expectations.

[thomashabets2]

I mean… my whole blog post is about how autotools does that easily, and Go does not.

"Language", no. But Go's build comments are not really part of the language proper.