$HOME/bin must be in the PATH

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by ewald.pankratz:

I followed the installation description and had a problem with
$ cd $GOROOT/src
$ make all

because my $HOME/bin was not in the PATH and it couldn't find 
gomake


waldi@digitec-03:~$ echo $GOOS
linux
waldi@digitec-03:~$ echo $GOARCH
amd64
waldi@digitec-03:~$ 



Which revision are you using?  (hg identify)


Please provide any additional information below.

[rsc]

Comment 1:

Can you please post the transcript of the broken build, or at least the last 20 lines or 
so?

Status changed to WaitingForReply.

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Comment 2 by ewald.pankratz:

ERROR
=======
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/godefs'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/godoc'
rm -f *.[568vq] godoc
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/godoc'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/gofmt'
rm -f *.[568vq] gofmt
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/gofmt'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/gotest'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/gotest'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/goyacc'
rm -f *.[568vq] goyacc
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/goyacc'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/hgpatch'
rm -f *.[568vq] hgpatch
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/hgpatch'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/prof'
rm -f *.o 6prof
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/waldi/go/src/cmd/prof'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/waldi/go/src/pkg'
cd archive/tar && gomake clean
/bin/sh: gomake: not found
make[1]: *** [archive/tar.clean] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/waldi/go/src/pkg'
make: *** [build] Error 2
waldi@digitec-03:~/go/src$ 
REVISION
=========
waldi@digitec-03:~/go$ hg identify
3887d4d81bca release.2010-01-05/release
COMMENT
========
I suppose $GOBIN must be in the path. I set it to my $HOME/bin.
I didn't see it in the description. May I have overlooked it?

[dhobsd]

Comment 3:

If GOBIN is unset, it automatically chooses $HOME/bin for you. It should not need to
be in your PATH anymore as of release.2010-01-13 and I am unable to duplicate it at
that release point. Can you confirm the issue has been fixed for you in this latest
release?

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Comment 4 by tuhong.tao:

I install the Go today, I also has the problem of GOBIN, if GOBIN is unset, the 
compile is not finished.

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Comment 5 by spiceman:

Same problem here. Failed to find 6a if $HOME/bin is not in $PATH (even with GOBIN
properly set!).
4:09 spiceman@cynic ~/go/src % echo $PATH
/home/spiceman/perl5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
4:09 spiceman@cynic ~/go/src % env | grep GO
GOROOT=/home/spiceman/go
GOOS=linux
GOARCH=amd64
GOBIN=/home/spiceman/bin
4:10 spiceman@cynic ~/go/src % make all
.
.make[3]: Entering directory `/home/spiceman/go/src/pkg/debug/elf'
rm -f _test/debug/elf.a _gotest_.6
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/spiceman/go/src/pkg/debug/elf'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/spiceman/go/src/pkg/debug/elf'
/home/spiceman/bin/6g -o _gotest_.6 elf.go file.go  elf_test.go file_test.go
rm -f _test/debug/elf.a
/home/spiceman/bin/gopack grc _test/debug/elf.a _gotest_.6 
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/spiceman/go/src/pkg/debug/elf'
PASS
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/spiceman/go/src/pkg/debug/elf'
cd debug/gosym && /home/spiceman/bin/gomake test
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/spiceman/go/src/pkg/debug/gosym'
/home/spiceman/bin/gotest
sh: 6a: not found
make[2]: *** [test] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/spiceman/go/src/pkg/debug/gosym'
make[1]: *** [debug/gosym.test] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/spiceman/go/src/pkg'
make: *** [run] Error 2

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Comment 6 by katzeleia:

hello,
I had similar problems like you. 
the following shellscript solved my problems. 
Maybe it works for you as well.
copy the following lines into a script and make it executable.
---- script begin ----
GOROOT=$HOME/go
export GOROOT
GOARCH=amd64
export GOARCH
GOOS=linux
export GOOS
GOBIN=$GOROOT/bin
export GOBIN
PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN
export PATH
hg clone -r release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ $GOROOT
cd $GOROOT
mkdir bin
cd $GOROOT/src
hg pull
hg update
hg commit
./all.bash
--- script end ----
call the script from bash this way 
. ./myscript.sh 
I hope that helps.

[rsc]

Comment 7:

I tested this and believe it is now fixed: $HOME/bin need not be in the path.
changeset:   4727:54f5573c885c
user:        Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
date:        Thu Jan 28 18:18:40 2010 -0800
files:       doc/install.html src/cmd/gotest/gotest
description:
two minor build fixes
Fixes issue #572.
Fixes issue #570.
R=r
CC=golang-dev
http://golang.org/cl/194134

Owner changed to r...@golang.org.

Status changed to Fixed.

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Comment 8 by Erlan.Sergaziev:

I had the same problem. The only deviation from the guide was that I installed 
mercurial by "apt-get install mercurial" rather than "easy_install mercurial".
This is what solved the problem for me:
$ mkdir $GOROOT/bin
$ export GOBIN=$GOROOT/bin
$ export PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN