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Michael Matloob 2f2f8fe2e8 cmd/go: change go tool to build tools missing from GOROOT/pkg/tool
If a tool in cmd is not installed in $GOROOT/pkg/tool/${GOOS}_${GOARCH},
go tool will build (if it's not cached) and run it in a similar way
(with some changes) to how tools declared with tool directives are built
and run.

The main change in how builtin tools are run as compared to mod tools is
that they are built "in host mode" using the running go command's GOOS
and GOARCH. The "-exec" flag is also ignored and we don't add GOROOT/bin
to the PATH.

A ForceHost function has been added to the cfg package to force the
configuration to runtime.GOOS/runtime.GOARCH. It has to recompute the
BuildContext because it's normally determined at init time but we're
changing it after we realize we're running a builtin tool. (Detecting
that we're running a builtin tool at init time would mean replicating
the cmd line parsing logic so recomputing BuildContext sounds like the
smaller change.)

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Change-Id: I3b2edf2cb985c1dcf5f845fbf39b7dc11dea4df7
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The Go Programming Language

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