On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:02 AM, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee.vanga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am taking my first steps with Go and following the instructions on > https://golang.org/doc/install to the letter. > I am finding documentation issues that are reproducible on a clean system, I > can give exact steps to reproduce. > > To give one example, the documentation says: > > "(If you'd like to use a different directory, you will need to set the > GOPATH environment variable.)" > > which implies that if you do not set the $GOPATH variable, then the > operating system default will be used, for example $HOME/go on Linux. > > However, if I later follow the instruction "You can run go install to > install the binary into your workspace's bin directory", then I get an > error: > > go install: no install location for directory /home/amedee/go/src/hello > outside GOPATH > > This is probably easy to fix by always explicitly setting the $GOPATH > variable, despite of what the documentation says about defaults. I still > need to confirm it, but it seems the logical solution.
Odd. What does `go env GOPATH` print? > I would like to submit a pull request or a patch to fix this documentation > issue. I have read the Contribution Guidelines about setting up Gerrit, but > I can't find the repository with the source code of the golang.org website. > > Where and how do I submit patches for the website? Files like the installation instructions are in the doc subdirectory of the main Go repo. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
