Comment 1:

Cannot reproduce:
(11:13) jnml@fsc-r550:~/src$ echo $GOPATH/src
/home/jnml/src
(11:13) jnml@fsc-r550:~/src$ pwd
/home/jnml/src
(11:13) jnml@fsc-r550:~/src$ cat > t.go <<EOF
> package main
> 
> import "fmt"
> 
> func main() { fmt.Println("Hello world") }
> EOF
(11:13) jnml@fsc-r550:~/src$ go install t.go 
(11:13) jnml@fsc-r550:~/src$ go clean
(11:14) jnml@fsc-r550:~/src$ go install -x t.go 
WORK=/tmp/go-build082759108
mkdir -p $WORK/command-line-arguments/_obj/
mkdir -p $WORK/command-line-arguments/_obj/exe/
cd /home/jnml/src
/home/jnml/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/6g -o $WORK/command-line-arguments/_obj/_go_.6 -p
command-line-arguments -complete -D _/home/jnml/src -I $WORK ./t.go
/home/jnml/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/pack grcP $WORK $WORK/command-line-arguments.a
$WORK/command-line-arguments/_obj/_go_.6
cd .
/home/jnml/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/6l -o $WORK/command-line-arguments/_obj/exe/a.out -L
$WORK $WORK/command-line-arguments.a
mkdir -p /home/jnml/bin/
cp $WORK/command-line-arguments/_obj/exe/a.out /home/jnml/bin/t
(11:14) jnml@fsc-r550:~/src$ go version
go version go1.1rc2 linux/amd64
(11:14) jnml@fsc-r550:~/src$

Comment 2:

i can reproduce it using exactly dave's commands.
it's a corner case so perhaps we don't need to specially handle it
in the code, and instead just revise the error message to something
like:
go install: no install location for directory /tmp/gopath/src (not within GOPATH/src)

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

Status changed to Accepted.

Comment 3:

Labels changed: added go1.2.

Comment 4:

This issue was closed by revision 159c2b7.

Status changed to Fixed.