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krisnova opened this issue Oct 29, 2016 · 2 comments
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cmd/go: improve error message when unable to detect symlinked packages during go install #17662

krisnova opened this issue Oct 29, 2016 · 2 comments
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V 1.6.2 Darwin/AMD64

filepath.Walk does not (and will not) respect traversing symlinks. (See #17451)

Can we improve the error message when a user attempts to run go install on a package that is a symlink? Right now the error message is "warning: %q matched no packages\n".

That does not offer the user insight into why the package did not build as expected.
@bradfitz bradfitz changed the title Improve error message when unable to detect symlinked packages during go install cmd/go: improve error message when unable to detect symlinked packages during go install Oct 29, 2016
@bradfitz bradfitz added this to the Go1.8Maybe milestone Oct 29, 2016
@bradfitz bradfitz added the Documentation Issues describing a change to documentation. label Oct 29, 2016
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Kinda documentation. But also code. For Go 1.8 if trivial.

@quentinmit quentinmit added the NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. label Nov 8, 2016
@rsc rsc modified the milestones: Go1.9, Go1.8Maybe Nov 11, 2016
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CL https://golang.org/cl/46425 mentions this issue.

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