go install：GOPATH以外的目录没有安装位置

Question

Ok, I've seen this question pop up a lot, but no solutions are working for me. I've tried countless times to solve this issue, but nothing. Here's what I have done:

• Installed Go.

I then added path requirements to my .bash_profile:

• export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
• export GOPATH=$HOME/go

I then setup the correct folders:

As you can see, I also created a projected called tire.

The contents for main.go are simply:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
  fmt.Println("Hello, world!")
}

I would assume this is all you need to get things working correctly, but no matter what I do, I always get the following error when I try to run go install:

go install: no install location for directory /Users/Daryl/go/src/tire outside GOPATH

I know I could just run go install tire, but that's not the issue. I'd rather know what's going on.

Here's what I get when I run go env:

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCHAR="6"
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/daryl/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
TERM="dumb"
CC="clang"
GOGCCFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fno-common"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"

Is this familiar to any of you? Did I miss something? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The problem was as James Henstridge commented, for some reason there was an issue with my user directory name case. Even though the directory is lowercase, I had to make it capitalized.

This worked:

GOPATH=/Users/Daryl/go

This didn't:

GOPATH=$HOME/go

However, since moving to a rMBP from my iMac, I had no problems whatsoever setting up Go, so, to this day, I'm not sure what was going on, but in that instance the capitalization fixed it.