Comment 1:

path.Walk doesn't follow symlinks, and I understand that this is to avoid circular
behaviour.
I'm not sure where the fix is, if any. Godoc could kick off an additional Walk when its
VisitFile encounters a symlink'd directory. Or path.Walk could have an option to follow
symlinks. Or we could mandate that the goroot be intact and free of symlinks for our
tools to work.
To solve this specific problem, why not make /usr/share/godoc/src a symlink to
/usr/lib/golang/src ?

Owner changed to a...@golang.org.

Status changed to Thinking.

Comment 2:

> Godoc could kick off an additional Walk when its VisitFile encounters a symlink'd
directory.
That would probably be the best sollution (with limiting max depth to something like 3
or 5).
But the easies workaround would be to resolve the symlink on the first level (ie. just
resolve the /usr/lib/golang/src and run path.Walk inside the resolved path).
> To solve this specific problem, why not make /usr/share/godoc/src a symlink to
/usr/lib/golang/src ?
It links to #1539 (ie. architecture-independent files should be in
/usr/share/<something>).

Comment 3:

godoc doesn't support symlinks in directory hierarchies
If you stop letting yourself get pushed around by FHS
you will be happier.
Russ

Status changed to WorkingAsIntended.

Comment 4:

> If you stop letting yourself get pushed around by FHS
> you will be happier.
The thing is not being pushed by FHS but it's either go will be included in major
distributions like Debian (aka FHS) or not (no FHS support).
Anyway no hard feelings, I'll fix it myself just for Debian (and other distros could
pick it up from my git repo).

Comment 5 by wwaites:

A very minor clash with my development practice encountered this same problem. I like to
do
    ln -s ~/src/gostuff ~/go/src/pkg/bitbucket/ww
and of course that breaks godoc. As I said a minor inconvenience - to check the
documentation
I have to push to bitbucket and then install with goinstall. A patch to fix this in
godoc is attached
but "go doesn't support symlinks in directory hierarchies" sounds rather categorical...

Attachments:

1. godoc-symlinks.diff (1769 bytes)

Comment 6:

Cool, I'll incorporate the patch into the Debian package as soon as I get back from my
vacation.

Comment 7 by dmitry@dsa.pp.ru:

I've got another patch to fix the problem.

Attachments:

1. godoc-symlinks.diff (778 bytes)