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

$ go version

go version go1.18 darwin/arm64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

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

$ go env
GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="arm64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/Users/testy/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOENV="/Users/testy/Library/Application Support/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOEXPERIMENT=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="arm64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOINSECURE=""
GOMODCACHE="/Users/testy/go/pkg/mod"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/testy/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.18/libexec"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.18/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64"
GOVCS=""
GOVERSION="go1.18"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/Users/testy/tmp/x/lib1/lib2/go.mod"
GOWORK="/Users/testy/tmp/x/go.work"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/qr/4s_dq83s1lddgv10vn9591y80000gn/T/go-build3045518203=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

What did you do?

`
mkdir bug
cd bug

mkdir lib1 lib2
cd lib1
go mod init bugsquash.com/lib1
ln -s ../lib2
cd ../lib2
go mod init bugsquash.com/lib2
mkdir -p internal/a
printf "package a\nfunc Foo() {}\n" > internal/a/foo.go
mkdir -p cmd/foo
printf 'package main\nimport "bugsquash.com/lib2/internal/a"\nfunc main() { a.Foo() }\n' > cmd/foo/foo.go
go build cmd/foo/foo.go # succeeds
cd ../lib1/lib2
go build cmd/foo/foo.go # succeeds
cd ../../
go work init
go work use ./lib2
cd lib1/lib2
go build cmd/foo/foo.go

fails with this message:

package command-line-arguments

cmd/foo/foo.go:2:8: use of internal package bugsquash.com/lib2/internal/a not allowed

cd ../../lib2
go build cmd/foo/foo.go # succeeds
cd ../
rm go.work
cd lib1/lib2
go build cmd/foo/foo.go # succeeds
`

What did you expect to see?

I expect go build to succeed in lib1/lib2 (lib2 is a symlink) even when using go.work. If I remove go.work it works.

What did you see instead?

package command-line-arguments cmd/foo/foo.go:2:8: use of internal package bugsquash.com/lib2/internal/a not allowed