Public bug reported:
If I attempt to run `godoc -http=:6060` I get this error:
2018/01/15 13:56:07 godoc: corpus fstree is nil
Some googling brought me to this go core bug -
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15049
On closing the bug, Russ Cox says "I think this is basically working as
intended. Every time anyone tries to make godoc do more with symlinks it
ends up chasing its own tail. Symlinks in Go file trees should just be
disallowed, honestly."
Of course, I realize that the symlinks are there to put things where the
FHS says they should be, but Go knows the one true way to do everything,
and it says "don't do that". And since it's Go, not only does it say
"don't do that", it breaks in the presence of it and will never be
changed to work any other way.
In this case, I think getting godoc to work trumps the FHS.
I'm sure this applies to other golang-1.X packages too, but I haven't
looked at them.
** Affects: golang-1.9 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Symlinks under $GOROOT break godoc
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