Hi,
Here my summary and notes on https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#terraform-clicore-development-environment Having `git` and `golang-go` installed. Have "hello world" for go compiled and run, so you know that it works. Copy and paste this in your command line terminal: git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform.git cd terraform/ go install . ls -lh $(go env GOPATH)/bin/terraform $(go env GOPATH)/bin/terraform version This what you can expect as output stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github $ git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform.git Cloning into 'terraform'... remote: Enumerating objects: 264828, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (244/244), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (146/146), done. remote: Total 264828 (delta 139), reused 174 (delta 94), pack-reused 264584 Receiving objects: 100% (264828/264828), 231.55 MiB | 1.74 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (164863/164863), done. stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github $ cd terraform/ stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github/terraform $ go install . most likely several lines of "downloading something" and no additional output stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github/terraform $ ls -lh $(go env GOPATH)/bin/terraform -rwxr-xr-x 1 gs0604 gs0604 82M 19 sep 20:49 /home/stappers/go/bin/terraform stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github/terraform $ $(go env GOPATH)/bin/terraform version Terraform v1.3.0-dev on linux_amd64 stappers@myhost:/usr/src/github/terraform $ What me did surprise, was how quick / fast the compile is after the download. I was wondering "Already now a succesfull build?" In doubt I did another `go install .` which was immediatly finished. Yes, that build went again fast. To get the executable "installed" I did: sudo ln -s /home/stappers/go/bin/terraform /usr/bin/ That symlink will help to be up to date with what is build. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
