Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#51273 closed defect (wontfix)

Installing godoc fails

Reported by: secsaba (Csaba Endre Simon) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.3.4
Keywords: Cc: ci42
Port: go

Description

GOPATH is set to ~/src/go. When trying to issue 'go get' it fails with the following error: 

$ go get -u golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc
go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc: open /opt/local/lib/go/bin/godoc: permission denied

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by ci42

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

Installing something under the macports prefix /opt/local/ requires root priviliges and is highly discouraged. Please use the go-tools port which includes godoc. 

$ sudo port install go-tools
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