How to use /usr/share/gocode?

[Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>]

Dear all

(please Cc answers)

I am trying to fix some bugs in a Go program I am using which is not
packaged. I have the sources in
	~/go/src/github.com/...
I have installed the necessary dependencies via apt (all kinds of
golang-github-... packages).

Now I am trying to build the package. First I tried with
	GOPATH=~/go
which normally works if I have all deps installed into ~/go. But since
other deps are in /usr/share/gocode, this doesn't work.

Next I set
	GOPATH=/usr/share/gocode:~/go
which again fails with errors for *each* installed package:
	mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: permission denied
(yes of course, I am not compiling anything as root!).

Then I checked whether there is any documentation in the golang-go,
golang, etc etc etc, but no README.Debian nor anything else under
	/usr/share/doc/golang*

Could you please explain (and maybe add it to some README.Debian in
golang-go or similar) how
	/usr/share/gocode
should be used (besides copying everything into ~/go, which defeats the
idea!).

Thanks (again, please Cc)

Norbert

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