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rsc opened this issue Sep 22, 2021 · 7 comments
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cmd/go: confusing error for non-existent go source files #48559

rsc opened this issue Sep 22, 2021 · 7 comments
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BadErrorMessage Issues related compiler error messages that should be better. GoCommand cmd/go NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one.
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rsc commented Sep 22, 2021 

% go build notexist.go
cannot find package "." in:
	/Users/rsc/go/src/notexist.go
%

For what it's worth, I'm not in /Users/rsc/go/src.
That's just the error looking for a std package named notexist.go.
It should show me an error more like 'no such file notexist.go'.

/cc @bcmills @jayconrod @matloob
@rsc rsc added this to the Go1.18 milestone Sep 22, 2021
@robpike robpike changed the title cmd/go: confusing error for non-existant go source files cmd/go: confusing error for non-existent go source files Sep 22, 2021
@mknyszek mknyszek added the NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. label Oct 4, 2021
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heschi commented Oct 6, 2021

Ping from the release team: any updates on this release blocker?

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Briefly looked into this, but wasn't able to reproduce it. Outside a module in 1.17.1, I see this:

$ go build notexist.go
no required module provides package notexist.go: go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory; see 'go help modules'

Inside a module:

$ go build notexist.go
no required module provides package notexist.go; to add it:
        go get notexist.go

What version of Go was this? What does go env show?

@jayconrod jayconrod reopened this Oct 6, 2021
@jayconrod jayconrod added the WaitingForInfo Issue is not actionable because of missing required information, which needs to be provided. label Oct 6, 2021
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@bcmills bcmills added the okay-after-beta1 Used by release team to mark a release-blocker issue as okay to resolve either before or after beta1 label Nov 19, 2021
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@bcmills This is in the 1.18 milestone; time to move to 1.19? Thanks.

(The current error isn't great since it treats nonexist.go as the name of a package. That is technically correct but maybe if it doesn't exist we can treat a trailing ".go" as a special case and give a different error message.)

@bcmills bcmills reopened this Jan 29, 2022
@bcmills bcmills modified the milestones: Go1.18, Go1.19 Jan 29, 2022
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Whoops, sorry, didn't mean to close this.

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bcmills commented Feb 16, 2022

This was improved somewhat by the fix for #48907, but it's still not ideal.

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bcmills commented Feb 17, 2022 •
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This also turns out to be another in the cluster of go list -e error-reporting bugs. There are a number of base.Fatalf calls in load.GoFilesPackage that could just as easily be returned as errors.

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Change https://go.dev/cl/386496 mentions this issue: cmd/go: improve error handling for nonexistent files

@bcmills bcmills modified the milestones: Go1.19, Go1.20 Jun 30, 2022
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