title: Go: Not running on powerpc64 (big-endian)
body: <p>I have downloaded the GO package(ppc64) for the PowerPC 64 machine.When I run the go it throws the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>./go: line 1:ELF▒9@p@8: not found
  ./go: line 2: syntax error: unexpected ")"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Machine information is like below,</p>
  
  <pre><code>uname -a
  Linux 0005B9427C4C 3.12.19-rt30 #1 SMP Sun Jul 2 16:21:28 IST 2017 ppc64 GNU/Linux
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>From /proc/cpuinfo:
      processor       : 0
      cpu             : e6500, altivec supported
      clock           : 1599.999984MHz
      revision        : 2.0 (pvr 8040 0120)</p>
  
  <pre><code>processor       : 1
  cpu             : e6500, altivec supported
  clock           : 1599.999984MHz
  revision        : 2.0 (pvr 8040 0120)
  
  processor       : 2
  cpu             : e6500, altivec supported
  clock           : 1599.999984MHz
  revision        : 2.0 (pvr 8040 0120)
  
  processor       : 3
  cpu             : e6500, altivec supported
  clock           : 1599.999984MHz
  revision        : 2.0 (pvr 8040 0120)
  
  processor       : 4
  cpu             : e6500, altivec supported
  clock           : 1599.999984MHz
  revision        : 2.0 (pvr 8040 0120)
  
  processor       : 5
  cpu             : e6500, altivec supported
  clock           : 1599.999984MHz
  revision        : 2.0 (pvr 8040 0120)
  
  processor       : 6
  cpu             : e6500, altivec supported
  clock           : 1599.999984MHz
  revision        : 2.0 (pvr 8040 0120)
  
  processor       : 7
  cpu             : e6500, altivec supported
  clock           : 1599.999984MHz
  revision        : 2.0 (pvr 8040 0120)
  
  timebase        : 41666666
  platform        : CoreNet Generic
  model           : fsl,B4860QDS
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have downloaded the go1.8.3.linux-ppc64le.tar.gz package from <a href="https://golang.org/dl/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://golang.org/dl/</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I have searched a lot but could not find any solution. Can you tell me what is going wrong?How to fix it?</p>