bug#30287: Go compiler tries writing to the store

[Sarah Morgensen via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>]

Hello,

Looking through old Go bugs I found this. Is this still an issue for
anyone? I just tested with go@1.14 and go@1.16 and I got expected
behavior (binary was installed in ~/go/bin, since ~/go is the default
GOPATH).

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:50:10AM +0100, Peter Mikkelsen wrote:
>> Hi guix,
>
> Hi, thanks for this report! I saw your brief conversation on #guix with
> civodul. Unfortunately I've only been paying attention to packaging Go
> software with Guix, so I didn't notice this issue.
>
>> For example, after setting the environment variable GOPATH to
>> /home/peter/go, and creating a small hello world program in there, I
>> would normally be able to run 'go install' in that folder, and the
>> hello world binary would end up in my gopath. But on guixSD this is
>> not the case, since it seems like 'go install' is trying to compile
>> every single library provided by to go package itself, and that means
>> writing to the store, which is not possible.

--
Sarah