Cannot Import Absolute Path

[Peter Siegesmund]

Using Golang 1.7.1 on Mac OSX 10.11.6.
Cloned go-starter-kit to $GOPATH/src/github.com/<username>/<projectname>

Followed build instructions with npm i -> srlt restore -> make serve
Also tried make install -> make serve

Either way, I get the following error with make serve:

go install /Users/foo/Documents/Programming/go/src/github.com/foo/go-starter-kit/vendor/github.com/olebedev/on
can't load package: package /Users/foo/Documents/Programming/go/src/github.com/foo/go-starter-kit/vendor/github.com/olebedev/on: import "/Users/foo/Documents/Programming/go/src/github.com/foo/go-starter-kit/vendor/github.com/olebedev/on": cannot import absolute path
make: *** [/Users/foo/Documents/Programming/Go/bin/on] Error 1

[Sebastian Macias]

+1 exact same issue Golang 1.7.1 Ubuntu 14.04

[Oleg Lebedev]

@siegesmund, @sebastianmacias
what is the output of go env regarding this project?

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I've just tried to reproduce the bug, but on have been installed as expected. Makefile should produce output like this go install github.com/olebedev/go-starter-kit/vendor/github.com/olebedev/on for this rule. Seems, your IMPORT_PATH was evaluated incorrectly.

[Ismael Santos Kafeltz]

Same problem here, I could find a way to work around.

[TaiPhamD]

I had that absolute path error. Then I did sudo npm i , srlt restore, then when I did make install it gave me a permission denied to $GOPATH/bin/on .

Then i did npm i, make install, then when trying make serve it says $GOPATH/bin/on permission denied again.

I finally did sudo chown -R whoami $GOPATH and everything is working again.

[Nhan Nguyen]

I faced with this problem, and it's happened by symbolic link.
Example: $GOPATH=/Volumes/Dev/go
and I make a symlink to "/Users/me/go"
Then, when I run "make serve" from "/Users/me/go/src/github.com/olebedev/go-starter-kit", It will through an error "Cannot Import Absolute Path"
So, the solution in my case is run "make serve" from directory:
"/Volumes/Dev/go/src/github.com/olebedev/go-starter-kit"

Hope it help.

[Oleg Lebedev]

Thanks @virusvn.
The problem could be solved by cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/<username>/<project>as was mentioned in README.md.

[Daniel Que]

I'm getting this same issue, and I've made sure to use cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/<username>/<project>.

It was working fine a couple of days ago.

go env:

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/danielque/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.9.1/libexec"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.9.1/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="clang"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/3z/z1r8_syj6798bnh2jlttb30r0000gn/T/go-build989885638=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"

EDIT: Looks like my ~/.zshrc had GOPATH=~/gocode and changing it to export GOPATH=~/gocode fixed the issue.

[DSofter]

@olebedev I'm still seeing this issue and i believe i'm in the right folder. anything i'm missing?

[nebulr]

this error can be thrown if you don't have GOPATH set in your shell

[Ben Wadsworth]

For me, this issue seemed to arise from my version of sed not concatenating environment variables with strings properly (this is on MacOS 10.13). I managed to fix it by replacing this line (Makefile, line 12):

IMPORT_PATH = $(shell pwd | sed "s|^$(GOPATH)/src/||g")

...with this line:

IMPORT_PATH = $(shell pwd | sed "s|^$(GOPATH)||g" | sed "s|^src/||g")

I can make a PR for this if it helps more people, depends if it's compatible with versions of sed where the original works as well.