On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 4:59:32 PM UTC+1, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:02 AM, Amedee Van Gasse > <amedee....@gmail.com <javascript:>> 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? >
It prints a blank, which is expected, because at the point where I was following the Getting Started documentation (https://golang.org/doc/install), it had covered setting the $GOROOT and $PATH environment variables, but not the $GOPATH variable. > > > > 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. > > Thank you very much! This is exactly what I needed, and I found instructions on setting up Gerrit, I'll be on my way now. -- 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.
