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cmd/go: say 'path outside GOPATH' #3500

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bradfitz opened this issue Apr 8, 2012 · 7 comments
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cmd/go: say 'path outside GOPATH' #3500

bradfitz opened this issue Apr 8, 2012 · 7 comments
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bradfitz commented Apr 8, 2012 

go build has a useful error message.
go install has a very confusing error message.

parallels@ubuntu:/media/psf/Home/src/camlistore.org/third_party/github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3$
go build
# pkg-config --cflags sqlite3
Package sqlite3 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `sqlite3.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'sqlite3' found
exit status 1

parallels@ubuntu:/media/psf/Home/src/camlistore.org/third_party/github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3$
go install
go install: no install location for
_/media/psf/Home/src/camlistore.org/third_party/github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
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rsc commented Apr 9, 2012

Comment 1:

These are two different errors.
go build tries to build the package and runs into a pkg-config problem.
go install tries to figure out where to install the package (you must
be outside $GOPATH) and explains that it doesn't know, if it were to
build it, where to put the result.  If you'd been in a $GOPATH then
presumably go install would proceed, try to build it, and hit the
pkg-config problem.
The 'go install' error could be made to say 'code outside GOPATH' or
something like that.

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bradfitz commented Apr 9, 2012

Comment 2:

Oh, indeed, my GOPATH had an errant "/src" at the end.

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Comment 3:

Labels changed: added priority-later, removed priority-triage.

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rsc commented Sep 12, 2012

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Status changed to Accepted.

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rsc commented Sep 12, 2012

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Labels changed: added go1.1.

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rsc commented Dec 10, 2012

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Labels changed: added size-m.

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rsc commented Jan 31, 2013

Comment 8:

This issue was closed by revision 8b6534b.

Status changed to Fixed.

@rsc rsc added this to the Go1.1 milestone Apr 14, 2015
@rsc rsc removed the go1.1 label Apr 14, 2015
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