@tsuna is this a regression from Go1.8?
/cc @rsc

I don't know, I've never seen this error before. The only similar issue I've found on GitHub was alecthomas/gometalinter#242 and that was reported with go1.8 already, but I don't know if it's the same problem.

Aye aye, gotcha. Thanks for the update. I'll mark this as needing investigation and for Go1.10.

I'm seeing this on go1.8.3

 → dockerc run --rm api go version
Starting xxx_postgres_1 ... done
go version go1.8.3 linux/amd64

It's definitely transient, and occurs even with pristine and brand new GOPATHs

I can't see how @tsuna's report can happen unless there are symlinks involved. (Symlinks are basically unsupported.) Somehow the package in his $GOPATH/src/github.com/fatih/color/vendor/github.com/mattn/go-colorable has been loaded as if its fully-qualified import path were only "github.com/mattn/go-colorable" when in fact it should be "github.com/fatih/color/vendor/github.com/mattn/go-colorable". The most likely culprit for this kind of confusion is symlinks. I cannot reproduce the problem right now, although it should of course not be transient in any way.

I tried reproducing this with both Go 1.8 and Go 1.9, with no luck:

$ mkdir /tmp/gp1
$ GOPATH=/tmp/gp1 go1.9 get github.com/uber/go-torch
$ GOPATH=/tmp/gp1 go1.9 get -u github.com/uber/go-torch
$

If anyone can send a set of commands to reproduce this with a specific version of Go, starting with an empty GOPATH directory and not using Docker, that would be great.

@pbdeuchler since you didn't post any command output it's impossible to know whether you're really seeing the same problem @tsuna is or a different bug entirely.

I believe I am seeing the same issue with symlinks using Go 1.10-beta1 (was fine in Go 1.9.2).

In my case, my project is copied into /source in the docker golang:1.10-rc-alpine image.

I then symlink the directory to /go/src/github.com/user/project, where /go is the GOPATH.

This is the output when I try to run go test -v $(go list ./... | grep -v /vendor/)t:

unexpected directory layout:
        import path: _/go/src/github.com/user/project/cockroachdb/cockroachdbpb
        root: /go/src
        dir: /go/src/github.com/user/project/cockroachdb/cockroachdbpb
        expand root: /go/src
        expand dir: /source/cockroachdb/cockroachdbpb
        separator: /

EDIT: I believe this is due to the way files are generated by go protobuf and not go itself.

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