为什么在我之前直接将其设置为命令时，Golang为何未设置我的GOPATH？

Question

This is becoming very frustrating. I set my GOPATH in my ~/.bash_profile, but Go still says it's not set. So I set it manually, and it still says.

computer:~ doug$ export GOPATH=~/Dropbox/golang
computer:~ doug$ sudo go get -u golang.org/x/tools/cmd/...
package golang.org/x/tools/cmd/...: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

What am I doing wrong here? If I type goenv it even lists it as being set to the right path.

Answer 1

sudo removes environment variables by default, so the command running as root can't see the environment variable set as doug. In general you shouldn't need sudo to run go get, although some of the golang.org/x/tools packages are somewhat special. Try installing just the ones you need (without sudo) instead of using ...