"go install -a" fails trying to rebuild internal Go packages

[Chris McGee]

Hello All,

I have a command that I'm working on that depends on a library that I have in my GOPATH. After upgrading to Go 1.2RC1 I ran a "go install -a <mycmd>" to force it to recompile the command and the library it depends on. When I try this I get the following error:

go install runtime: open /usr/local/go/pkg/linux_amd64/runtime.a: permission denied

It appears that it is trying to recompile one of the Go runtime packages in the GOROOT and failing because the install directory is owned by root. I'm using godeb to manage my packages. I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

Is there a way to coerce it to recompile only packages that are in my local GOPATH and not the ones in the GOROOT?

Thanks,

Chris

[Dave Cheney]

rm -rf $GOPATH/pkg will do the job.

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[Dave Cheney]

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=6424

[Chris McGee]

Thank you for the workaround and the link!

Chris

[Chris McGee]

It's odd that there's no mention of the "all" selector for go install/test/clean in the "go help" for any of those subcommands. I had no idea that it existed until I read this issue.

[Dave Cheney]

This was fixed at tip

http://tip.golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Description_of_package_lists

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[Chris McGee]

Ah great, thanks again.