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Setting GO environment variables (GOPATH, GOBIN)

See original GitHub issue

Ref: https://github.com/actions/setup-go/blob/818723587f041a921450ba8adf4e69063a18d821/src/installer.ts#L105-L115

2019-08-15T22:05:36.9141345Z env:
2019-08-15T22:05:36.9141441Z   GOROOT: /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.12.0/x64
2019-08-15T22:05:36.9141482Z ##[endgroup]
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0161150Z LEIN_HOME=/usr/local/lib/lein
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0161985Z M2_HOME=/usr/share/apache-maven-3.6.1
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0162146Z BOOST_ROOT=/usr/local/share/boost/1.69.0
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0162236Z GOROOT_1_11_X64=/usr/local/go1.11
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0162330Z ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/lib/android/sdk
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0162641Z JAVA_HOME_11_X64=/usr/lib/jvm/zulu-11-azure-amd64
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0162818Z LANG=C.UTF-8
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0162931Z INVOCATION_ID=e226194a393e43d59aba6bd4c85af030
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0163149Z JAVA_HOME_12_X64=/usr/lib/jvm/zulu-12-azure-amd64
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0163325Z ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/usr/local/lib/android/sdk
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0163420Z RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE=/opt/hostedtoolcache
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0163674Z JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/zulu-8-azure-amd64
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0163967Z RUNNER_TRACKING_ID=github_28b0e254-504e-46ce-b1ab-b1db282d32b4
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0164043Z GITHUB_ACTIONS=true
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0164178Z DOTNET_SKIP_FIRST_TIME_EXPERIENCE=1
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0164238Z USER=runner
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0164303Z GITHUB_HEAD_REF=
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0164521Z GITHUB_ACTOR=radu-matei
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0164594Z GITHUB_ACTION=run
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0164676Z GRADLE_HOME=/usr/share/gradle
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0164763Z PWD=/home/runner/work/signy/signy
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0164871Z HOME=/home/runner
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0164966Z GOROOT=/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.12.0/x64
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0165060Z JOURNAL_STREAM=9:26649
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0165324Z JAVA_HOME_8_X64=/usr/lib/jvm/zulu-8-azure-amd64
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0165421Z RUNNER_TEMP=/home/runner/work/_temp
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0165510Z CONDA=/usr/share/miniconda
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0165615Z BOOST_ROOT_1_69_0=/usr/local/share/boost/1.69.0
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0165753Z RUNNER_WORKSPACE=/home/runner/work/signy
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0166170Z GITHUB_REF=refs/heads/gh-actions
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0166286Z GITHUB_SHA=419522609132ac1c17aed7d67e84e855de049c5e
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0166418Z GOROOT_1_12_X64=/usr/local/go1.12
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0166504Z DEPLOYMENT_BASEPATH=/opt/runner
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0166638Z GITHUB_EVENT_PATH=/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_workflow/event.json
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0166705Z RUNNER_OS=Linux
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0166811Z GITHUB_BASE_REF=
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0167013Z VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT=/usr/local/share/vcpkg
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0167113Z PERFLOG_LOCATION_SETTING=RUNNER_PERFLOG
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0167581Z JAVA_HOME_7_X64=/usr/lib/jvm/zulu-7-azure-amd64
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0167657Z RUNNER_USER=runner
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0167712Z SHLVL=1
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0167844Z GITHUB_REPOSITORY=engineerd/signy
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0167932Z GITHUB_EVENT_NAME=push
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0168211Z LEIN_JAR=/usr/local/lib/lein/self-installs/leiningen-2.9.1-standalone.jar
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0168321Z RUNNER_PERFLOG=/home/runner/perflog
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0168438Z GITHUB_WORKFLOW=Go
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0168514Z ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0168631Z PATH=/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.12.0/x64/bin:/usr/share/rust/.cargo/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0168788Z GITHUB_WORKSPACE=/home/runner/work/signy/signy
2019-08-15T22:05:37.0168994Z CHROME_BIN=/usr/bin/google-chrome

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radu-mateicommented, Aug 16, 2019

I agree with @lmittmann here - provide sane defaults for $GOPATH and $GOBIN, and allow users to change them if needed.

Also, it would be really convenient if the source code was placed in $GOPATH/{repository} directly.

11reactions

crazy-maxcommented, Aug 25, 2019

Hi guys,

I also encountered this problem and I managed to solve it by adding this step. Works on all environments:

      -
        name: Set GOPATH
        # temporary fix
        # see https://github.com/actions/setup-go/issues/14
        run: |
          echo "##[set-env name=GOPATH;]$(dirname $GITHUB_WORKSPACE)"
          echo "##[add-path]$(dirname $GITHUB_WORKSPACE)/bin"
        shell: bash

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