Description of problem: I installed golang and golang-github-kr-pty-devel from Fedora as described in https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tech/languages/go/go-installation.html https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tech/languages/go/go-packages.html but go does not use golang-github-kr-pty-devel without /usr/share/gocode being added to $GOPATH. But if it is there, go complains that it cannot mkdir/write to /usr/share/gocode/pkg. $ export GOPATH=/usr/share/gocode:/home/till/work $ go install till/test/pty go install github.com/kr/pty: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: permission denied $ export GOPATH=/home/till/work:/usr/share/gocode $ go install till/test/pty go install github.com/kr/pty: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: permission denied Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): golang-1.6.4-3.fc24 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf install golang-github-kr-pty-devel golang 2. mkdir -p $HOME/work/src/till/test/pty export GOPATH=$HOME/work cat > $HOME/work/src/till/test/pty <<EOF package main import ( "github.com/kr/pty" "io" "os" "os/exec" ) func main() { c := exec.Command("grep", "--color=auto", "bar") f, err := pty.Start(c) if err != nil { panic(err) } go func() { f.Write([]byte("foo\n")) f.Write([]byte("bar\n")) f.Write([]byte("baz\n")) f.Write([]byte{4}) // EOT }() io.Copy(os.Stdout, f) } EOF 3. go install till/test/pty Actual results: src/till/test/pty/pty.go:4:5: cannot find package "github.com/kr/pty" in any of: /usr/lib/golang/src/github.com/kr/pty (from $GOROOT) /home/till/work/src/github.com/kr/pty (from $GOPATH) Expected results: It should install pty to $HOME/work/bin Additional info: It works when I do: mkdir -p $HOME/system-golang ln -s /usr/share/gocode/src/ $HOME/system-golang/src export GOPATH=$GOPATH:$HOME/system-golang If this is the recommended way of using Fedora go packages it should be documented.
Sorry, there is a typo when creating the go file: BAD: cat > $HOME/work/src/till/test/pty <<EOF GOOD: cat > $HOME/work/src/till/test/pty/pty.go <<EOF
Building seems to work with: export GOPATH=$HOME/work:/usr/share/gocode go build till/test/pty but AFAICS setting the GOPATH to include /usr/share/gocode also lacks documentation and it still break go install. Thx to thm for finding this and the typo from comment 1
(In reply to Till Maas from comment #2) > Building seems to work with: > > export GOPATH=$HOME/work:/usr/share/gocode > go build till/test/pty This is intended way of use, if you want to use distribution libraries. I'm actually writing blog post about basic workspace setup(although definitively non-exhaustive). I will update the doc on devel portal to include these bits. > > but AFAICS setting the GOPATH to include /usr/share/gocode also lacks > documentation and it still break go install. This directories are distribution provided and are write protected from regular users(IMO correctly), that leads to failure of go install(or go build -i). There is question whatever we want to ship intermediate build artifacts for non-standard libraries which IMHO we shouldn't want until we will switch to/encourage dynamic linking, system wide(if at all). Maybe possibly just for libraries that do releases and guarantee stable API(and leave it on maintainer)? I think that is definitively still open question. CC'ed jchaloupka > > Thx to thm for finding this and the typo from comment 1
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle. Changing version to '26'.
So far, all golang devel packages are used for building only. If you decide to combine distribution specific go rpms an upstream projects when running 'go install`, you could try: $ GOPATH=$HOME/work go install till/test/pty
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