I am developing on OSX 10.7.4.
I have been experiencing some problems getting the "go get" command to work. In the course of trying to figure out what the problem was, I realized that Go was having trouble reading the $PATH environment variable.
The following script exhibits the problem:-
(PATH is returned as an empty string, and syscall.Getenv returns ok=false)
package main
import (
"os"
"syscall"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
path := os.Getenv("PATH")
fmt.Println(path)
syscall_path, ok := syscall.Getenv("PATH")
fmt.Println(syscall_path)
fmt.Println(ok)
}
I cannot imagine that this is a bug, as it is too dramatic to have gone unnoticed. So my question is this: In what way am I being stupid now?
:-)
I.e. What do I need to do to enable Go to access environment variables?
--Update:
As it turns out, it is actually a problem with my shell - Homebrew stopped working also, with the error message:
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:95: private method `split' called for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/bin/brew:10:in `require'
from /usr/local/bin/brew:10
I think that the problem stemmed from my use of the fish shell, which does not seem to be setting up the environment as I might have expected.
