cmd/go: 'go install' reports GOBIN not set when installing .go source file

[nutmix]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.10.2 darwin/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

unknown.

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN="/Users/xxx/go/bin"
GOCACHE="/Users/xxx/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/xxx/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/hz/mqzhd2cj5cj48knw7wkywpnh0000gn/T/go-build293557160=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

Above I have replaced my username with xxx

What did you do?

Very simple. I am trying to do "go install" on github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/migrate.go
My env vars are correctly exported (since years).

What I have trided:
$ cd ~/go/src/github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/
$ go install migrate.go
go install: no install location for .go files listed on command line (GOBIN not set)
$ echo $GOBIN
/Users/xxx/go/bin
$ ls $GOBIN
long list of installed go binaries.
$ echo $GOPATH
/Users/xxx/go
$ export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
$ echo $GOBIN
/Users/xxx/go/bin
$ go install migrate.go
go install: no install location for .go files listed on command line (GOBIN not set)

What did you expect to see?

Expected it to install migrate

What did you see instead?

go install: no install location for .go files listed on command line (GOBIN not set)
when GOBIN IS set, exported, exists, and has the correct ownership and permissions.

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/141337 mentions this issue: go/scanner: don't return token.INVALID for ".." sequence

Edit: Was incorrectly referenced because of typo in CL.

[nutmix]

Is there a work around? i.e. a way to install go programs?

[hellozee]

go install github.com/golang-migrate/migrate works though, plus they provide a separate Makefile for the development purposes.

[bcmills]

@nutmix I can't reproduce this and I don't know how it ever would have worked.

For the past ~two years, github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/migrate.go has relied upon a type defined in another file within the package:
https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/blob/418d41c2a18a96c5ed7f69e350531e450eaaf27d/migrate.go#L60

That means that it cannot be built from command-line file arguments, unless you list all of the non-test .go files, and that does work.

_gopath$ export GO111MODULE=off
_gopath$ go1.12beta1 get github.com/golang-migrate/migrate
_gopath$ cd src/github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/

_gopath/src/github.com/golang-migrate/migrate$ go1.12beta1 install migrate.go
# command-line-arguments
./migrate.go:60:6: undefined: Logger

_gopath/src/github.com/golang-migrate/migrate$ go1.12beta1 install $(ls *.go | grep -v '_test.go')

_gopath/src/github.com/golang-migrate/migrate$ export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin

_gopath/src/github.com/golang-migrate/migrate$ go1.12beta1 install $(ls *.go | grep -v '_test.go')

_gopath/src/github.com/golang-migrate/migrate$

Please give a concrete list of commands that we can run exactly, starting from an empty GOPATH, to reproduce the problem.

[gopherbot]

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