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cmd/go: go get -d gives needless and confusing error #11803

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robpike opened this issue Jul 21, 2015 · 5 comments
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cmd/go: go get -d gives needless and confusing error #11803

robpike opened this issue Jul 21, 2015 · 5 comments
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robpike commented Jul 21, 2015

% go get -d golang.org/x/mobile
package golang.org/x/mobile
imports golang.org/x/mobile: no buildable Go source files in /Users/r/src/golang.org/x/mobile
%

I see this message often when I want to grab a repository but not yet build it. Maybe I am unusual in this respect, but the error message is unnecessary (I asked to download it, not build it) and odd (the two-line format is peculiar and the "imports" word seems irrelevant to the invocation).
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adg commented Jul 21, 2015

This is working as intended according to #11090.

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robpike commented Jul 22, 2015

That issue doesn't address the weird message, only the presence of one.

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adg commented Jul 22, 2015

The message is presented because you have asked the go tool to download
this package and its dependencies, but there is no package there.

Assuming that such a message should be presented (what the other issue is
about), what should it say instead?

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Reopened #11803 #11803.

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robpike commented Jul 23, 2015

Just please tell me what
"package golang.org/x/mobile imports golang.org/x/mobile: " is doing in this message.
It's not true, and it can't be true, and it's a message about a circular dependency for a package that doesn't even exist.

That's what I'm complaining about.

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ALTree commented Jan 12, 2017

go1.8 error message:

package golang.org/x/mobile: no buildable Go source files in [...]/src/golang.org/x/mobile

no weird circular dependency message, so it looks like this is fixed.

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