by ibexris:

On OSX with go 1.0.3.

I've cloned a github project (https://github.com/bmizerany/noeqd) into a random temp
directory, rather than my main code directory.  If I attempt to "go install"
the package (which contains only a binary output, no package/include files), it builds
the noeqd program but fails to install it (this may be related to issue #3652).

I would expect it either tries to install in the main GOROOT path (in OSX, this is
root-writable /usr/local/go/), or at least throw the "no install location"
error that is thrown when trying to build library-only packages.

Installing to the main path would be preferable to me, but I suspect the latter would be
more go-like.  However, because setting GOPATH to the same as GOROOT is a no-op, there
is no way to force a package to install in the main source tree.

FWIW, if I use sudo and set GOBIN=`go env GOROOT`/bin the noeqd binary installs just
fine at /usr/local/go/bin/.