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| author | Jay Conrod <jayconrod@google.com> | 2021-07-29 13:22:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Jay Conrod <jayconrod@google.com> | 2021-07-29 20:27:07 +0000 |
| commit | 55fae94f8c908876d19fc233c744d8e88d8ce9df (patch) | |
| tree | 0cc3117234bb93e5a3f8b21a0e156487bda8feff /_content/ref | |
| parent | 6ee2983001bb7d461a5a7cdcacf8ad7050990d0a (diff) | |
| download | go-x-website-55fae94f8c908876d19fc233c744d8e88d8ce9df.tar.xz | |
_content/ref/mod: explain what 'go install' does for non-main packages
Change-Id: Ic4cf4566172af543cf58abc6c701a0c24f1866fe
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/website/+/338349
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| -rw-r--r-- | _content/ref/mod.md | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/_content/ref/mod.md b/_content/ref/mod.md index 06794308..aa896135 100644 --- a/_content/ref/mod.md +++ b/_content/ref/mod.md @@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ on the command line. Executables (`main` packages) are installed to the directory named by the `GOBIN` environment variable, which defaults to `$GOPATH/bin` or `$HOME/go/bin` if the `GOPATH` environment variable is not set. Executables in `$GOROOT` are installed in `$GOROOT/bin` or `$GOTOOLDIR` instead -of `$GOBIN`. +of `$GOBIN`. Non-executable packages are built and cached but not installed. Since Go 1.16, if the arguments have version suffixes (like `@latest` or `@v1.0.0`), `go install` builds packages in module-aware mode, ignoring the |