On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 9:01 AM David Karr <davidmichaelk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I enter "go help build", the first few lines shows this: > > usage: go build [-o output] [build flags] [packages] > > Build compiles the packages named by the import paths, > > The instructions say very little about what can be supplied as "packages". It > says it can be a list of .go files, and apparently assumes all of the > supplied files are in a single package , which seems like an odd assumption. > > However, I discovered one resource, and from my testing, that just supplying > "." (period) there also builds the application. > > From what I can see, it appears that the basic help information doesn't tell > the entire story about what can be supplied there, and exactly how those > values are used. > > What are all the legal variations of what can be supplied there, and what are > the exact semantics of those values?
See "go help packages" (on the web at https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/go#hdr-Package_lists_and_patterns). Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOyqgcWW979QhOy9e%2BSVrRcxMv%2BrTwr5YVA4jc%2BFr6H13NJ5Bw%40mail.gmail.com.
