Yes, that explains it. Perhaps the error could be more informative.

On Thu, 2019-09-26 at 20:19 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 7:36 PM Dan Kortschak <d...@kortschak.io>
> wrote:
> > 
> > I am looking at some changes we have made to make code generation
> > independent of GOPATH since from the SettingGOPATH page of the wiki
> > says "If no GOPATH is set, it is assumed to be $HOME/go on Unix
> > systems
> > and %USERPROFILE%\go on Windows."
> > 
> > However, when I run `go env` I see `missing $GOPATH` in response.
> > 
> > ```
> > ~ $ go env
> > GO111MODULE="on"
> > GOARCH="amd64"
> > GOBIN="/home/user/bin"
> > GOCACHE="/home/user/.cache/go-build"
> > GOENV="/home/user/.config/go/env"
> > GOEXE=""
> > GOFLAGS=""
> > GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
> > GOHOSTOS="linux"
> > GONOPROXY=""
> > GONOSUMDB=""
> > GOOS="linux"
> > GOPATH="/home/user"
> > GOPRIVATE=""
> > GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct";
> > GOROOT="/home/user/go"
> > GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
> > GOTMPDIR=""
> > GOTOOLDIR="/home/user/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
> > GCCGO="gccgo"
> > AR="ar"
> > CC="gcc"
> > CXX="g++"
> > CGO_ENABLED="1"
> > GOMOD="/dev/null"
> > CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
> > CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
> > CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
> > CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
> > CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
> > PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
> > GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-
> > map=/tmp/go-build038144482=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
> > ~ $ unset GOPATH
> > ~ $ go env
> > missing $GOPATH
> > ```
> > 
> > Is this expected now?
> 
> The problem you are encountering is that /home/user/go is already
> being used for GOROOT, so it can't be used for GOPATH.  If the
> default
> location is unavailable, there is no fallback, so you get "missing
> $GOPATH".
> 
> Ian

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