make build fails with `make: go-bindata-assetfs: Command not found`

[Tom Spettigue]

Describe the bug
Install fails after the make build step with the following error message:

...
Child mini-css-extract-plugin node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js!node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js??ref--5-2!src/style.scss:
    Entrypoint mini-css-extract-plugin = *
    [0] ./node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js??ref--5-2!./src/style.scss 3.72 KiB {0} [built]
        + 1 hidden module
go get github.com/go-bindata/go-bindata/...
go get github.com/elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs/...
go-bindata-assetfs -prefix ui/dist ui/dist
make: go-bindata-assetfs: Command not found
make: *** [assets] Error 127

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. run make build or make build-amd64

Expected behavior
I expected the build process to complete successfully, and then to resume the README guide past the make build step.

Screenshots
n/a

Device:

• OS: CentOS 7
• Node.js v14.15.4
• go 1.15.7
• wg-ui 1.1.0

[ThatRandomDude]

Did you add $HOME/go/bin to your .bash_history and opened a new session?
Alternatively you could just export the new line in the current session.

Had this problem moments ago and thought it would be enough to add the global go path /usr/local/go/bin.

Go downloads the go-bindata-assetfs to $HOME/go/bin

[Tom Spettigue]

I did, as a matter of fact. Found that from another thread elsewhere on the net. I'm running as root, with $GOBIN equal to /root/go/bin. Still get that error. It doesn't seem like it fails to download... :/

[Markus Viitamäki]

I am pretty sure it's wrong or missing $GOPATH or missing $GOPATH/bin/$GOBIN from $PATH.
What's the output of this echo $PATH && echo $GOPATH?

[Tom Spettigue]

Oh that might be something. I don't know if $GOPATH is set!

[root@server ~]# echo $PATH && echo $GOPATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/usr/local/go/bin

[root@server ~]# 

[Markus Viitamäki]

This issue is related to your system not finding go-bindata-assetfs binary based on your environment variables. I am not able to reproduce this on my systems.

[Tom Spettigue]

I fixed it by adding $GOPATH (or, in my case, following the Go setup instructions, $GOBIN) to my $PATH in ~/.bash_profile.

# Add Go to PATH
export GOBIN=$HOME/go/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOBIN