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cmd/go: doc returns wrong error message about missing package, where just the function name is wrong. #21176

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ikrabbe opened this issue Jul 26, 2017 · 2 comments
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cmd/go: doc returns wrong error message about missing package, where just the function name is wrong. #21176

ikrabbe opened this issue Jul 26, 2017 · 2 comments
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ikrabbe commented Jul 26, 2017 •
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Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version devel +df91b8044d Tue Jul 25 20:31:25 2017 +0000 linux/amd64

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

linux-amd64

What did you do?

go doc github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/opsworks SomeTypo
doc: cannot find package "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/services/opsworks" in any of:
/home/ingo/src/go.local/src/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/services/opsworks (from $GOROOT)
/home/ingo/go/src/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/services/opsworks (from $GOPATH)

What did you expect to see?

doc: package "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/services/opsworks" does not contain a symbol named "SomeTypo".

What did you see instead?

The error statement is just wrong, because actually there is such a package in my environment.
Such error statements make fixing local installations confusing and time consuming.
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ALTree commented Jul 26, 2017 •
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I can't reproduce this with go1.8.3 or go tip.

$ go get github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go
$ go doc github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/opsworks SomeTypo
doc: no symbol SomeTypo in package github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/opswork

There must be something wrong with your environment.

Also you wrote (in What did you do?) that you run

go doc github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/opsworks SomeTypo

but then why the error message you posted says:

doc: cannot find package "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/services/opsworks

with "services" with an "s" ? While in the command you pasted is /service/ with no "s"?

@ALTree ALTree changed the title go doc returns wrong error message about missing package, where just the function name is wrong. cmd/go: doc returns wrong error message about missing package, where just the function name is wrong. Jul 26, 2017
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ikrabbe commented Jul 26, 2017

sorry, you are right, I was wrong.

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