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cmd/go: go list inconsistently resolves empty paths to '.' #37300

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perillo opened this issue Feb 19, 2020 · 7 comments
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cmd/go: go list inconsistently resolves empty paths to '.' #37300

perillo opened this issue Feb 19, 2020 · 7 comments
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perillo commented Feb 19, 2020

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

$ go version
go version go1.14rc1 linux/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes.

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

go env Output
$ go env
GO111MODULE="on"
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN="/home/manlio/.local/bin"
GOCACHE="/home/manlio/.cache/go-build"
GOENV="/home/manlio/.config/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOINSECURE=""
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/manlio/.local/lib/go:/home/manlio/src/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/home/manlio/sdk/go1.14rc1"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/home/manlio/sdk/go1.14rc1/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/dev/null"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build552987847=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
GOROOT/bin/go version: go version go1.14rc1 linux/amd64
GOROOT/bin/go tool compile -V: compile version go1.14rc1
uname -sr: Linux 5.5.4-arch1-1
/usr/lib/libc.so.6: GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.31.
gdb --version: GNU gdb (GDB) 9.1

What did you do?

Inside a module github.com/perillo/goprint:

$ go list -m ""

What did you expect to see?

github.com/perillo/goprint

What did you see instead?

go list -m: module : not a known dependency

go list "" works fine. Is there a reason for this asymmetry?

If an empty module path must be rejected, the error message should be changed.

Thanks.
@perillo perillo changed the title cmd/go: go list -m fails when passing an empty module patj cmd/go: go list -m fails when passing an empty module path Feb 19, 2020
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bcmills commented Feb 19, 2020

go list "" works fine. Is there a reason for this asymmetry?

That looks like a bug in go list without -m.

If an empty module path must be rejected, the error message should be changed.

Agreed: we should fix the error message from go list -m.

CC @jayconrod @matloob

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perillo commented Feb 19, 2020

go list "" may be convenient.

The https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/go/packages package uses the function

invokeGo(verb string, args ...string)

but if a program expect only one package, it may use

invokeGo(verb string, arg string)

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bcmills commented Feb 19, 2020

go list . is well-defined. go list "" is not: the empty string is not a valid package pattern.

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perillo commented Feb 19, 2020 •
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Some more examples for go list without -m:

$ go list "" flag "" ""
github.com/perillo/goprint
flag

go list flag "" ""
flag
github.com/perillo/goprint

When outside a module they return an error:

go: cannot find main module; see 'go help modules'

This means that "" is treated the same as ".".

@bcmills bcmills changed the title cmd/go: go list -m fails when passing an empty module path cmd/go: go list inconsistently resolves empty paths to '.' Feb 19, 2020
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bcmills commented Feb 19, 2020

Those examples are consistent with "" being resolved to the same as ..

I don't think a separate issue is needed. (I suspect that the same CL can easily cover both cases, and if not we can fork another issue at that point.)

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perillo commented Feb 19, 2020

@bcmills: don't we have two different issues here?

  1. go list -m "" returns the wrong error message
  2. go list inconsistently resolve empty paths to "."

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bcmills commented Feb 19, 2020

Both symptoms arise from the same root cause: failure to diagnose empty-string arguments during argument parsing.

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