I'm sorry to say that that is bad advice. Symlinks and the go tools should 
be avoided.

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 08:29:33 UTC+10, gabriel...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi Ian, thanks for the confirmation!
>
> It turns out that the cause of this behavior is that I had followed the 
> instructions at 
> https://github.com/karlseguin/the-little-go-book/blob/9f95b4405760fe9d24d4f9b7da93889cc9306f58/en/go.md#getting-started
>  
> and
> symlinked thus: `$ ln -s ~/code/golang-workspace/src/github.com/foo/proj 
> ~/code/proj`
>
> In a directory structure without the symlink, things work correctly :)
>
> I'll file an issue on the Little Book of Go about this gotcha.
>
> Gabe
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 3:09:35 PM UTC-7, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:42 PM,  <gabriel...@gmail.com> wrote: 
>> > Is `$ go test github.com/foo/proj/...` <http://github.com/foo/proj/...> 
>> really supposed to work? 
>>
>> Yes. 
>>
>> > When I run it I get 
>> > 
>> > warning: "github.com/foo/proj/..." matched no packages 
>> > no packages to test 
>> > 
>> > But `cd src/github.com/foo/proj && go test ./...` does work as 
>> suggested. 
>>
>> What is the value of your GOPATH environment variable? 
>>
>> Ian 
>>
>

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