diff --git a/srcpkgs/go/template b/srcpkgs/go/template
index c263afc1d38..0349e5e3da2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/go/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/go/template
@@ -4,14 +4,13 @@ version=1.13.4
 revision=1
 create_wrksrc=yes
 build_wrksrc=go
-hostmakedepends="go1.4-bootstrap"
+hostmakedepends="go1.12-bootstrap"
 short_desc="Go Programming Language"
 maintainer="Michael Aldridge <maldridge@voidlinux.org>"
 license="BSD-3-Clause"
 homepage="http://golang.org/"
 distfiles="https://golang.org/dl/go${version}.src.tar.gz"
 checksum=95dbeab442ee2746b9acf0934c8e2fc26414a0565c008631b04addb8c02e7624
-
 nostrip=yes
 noverifyrdeps=yes
 
@@ -21,20 +20,27 @@ case "${XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE}" in
 	mips*) _goarch=mips ;;
 	i686*) _goarch=386 ;;
 	x86_64*) _goarch=amd64 ;;
+	ppc64le*) _goarch=ppc64le ;;
+	ppc64*) broken="Upstream does not support ELFv2 for big endian ppc64";;
+	ppc*) broken="Upstream does not support 32-bit ppc";;
 	*) _goarch=${XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE} ;;
 esac
 
+if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	if [ "${XBPS_MACHINE%%-musl}" = "${XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE%%-musl}" ]; then
+		broken="Cross-compiling to different libc is not supported"
+	fi
+fi
+
 do_build() {
 	unset GCC CC CXX LD CFLAGS
 	# FIXME: work around leaking go build-style vars when built as a
 	# dependency
 	unset CGO_CXXFLAGS CGO_CFLAGS CGO_ENABLED
 
-
-	export GOCACHE=off
+	export GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP="/usr/lib/go1.12"
 	export GOROOT=$PWD
 	export GOROOT_FINAL="/usr/lib/go"
-	export GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP="/usr/lib/go1.4"
 	export GOARCH=${_goarch}
 
 	cd "src"