On Thursday, 11 August 2022 at 10:09:35 UTC+2 Jan Mercl wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 9:59 AM Patrick Smith <pat42...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To date, I've been using a recipe I found some time ago through an
> Internet search (I've forgotten the source, so can't credit it):
> >
> > gocmd := runtime.GOROOT() + "/bin/go"
> > if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
> > gocmd += ".exe"
> > }
>
> I think using https://pkg.go.dev/os/exec#LookPath would be more
> correct as it respects the environment of the current process.
>
exec.LookPath is even better in Go 1.19, which implements
"go test and go generate now place GOROOT/bin at the beginning of the PATH
used for the subprocess, so tests and generators that execute the go
command will resolve it to same GOROOT."[0]
Elias
[0] https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.19#go-command
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