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The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more
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productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency
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mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and
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networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular
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program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the
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convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a
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fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed,
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interpreted language.
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The tools are added to the path by putting go.sh and go.csh files in
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/etc/profile.d and letting the system's /etc/profile or /etc/csh.login pick it
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up. If you want to add any of Go's environment variables you can add them
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there.
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Also, to easily setup a user-independent path for Go libraries to be installed
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to and used, is the GOPATH environment variable. This variable can be colon
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delimited. For example, once installing the built google-go-lang package, then
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set in your user's ~/.bashrc something like:
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export GOPATH="$HOME/src/go"
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Then, you'll be able to use the `go` command to install an additional library
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that will not need root permission and will be in the compiler's path.
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Like so:
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go get labix.org/v2/mgo
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Now in ~/src/go, you'll have this library available!
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Since the golang idiom is very `go get'able as a limited user, installed
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libraries from slackbuilds.org are located outside of GOROOT (which is only for
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golang standard library), in /usr/share/gocode
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By not setting a system-wide GOPATH defaulting to this location, then it is up
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to the user of whether to include this system path as well, like:
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export GOPATH="$HOME/src/go:/usr/share/gocode"
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This system source directory is primarly only for buildtime of slackbuilds.
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This is because `go get' iterates through the paths provided, looking for
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matching imports. If a match is not found, then is cloned to the first path
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provided. You would not want this to be a system path, as to need root
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privilege to clone source.
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As of go1.2, the 'go doc ...' command has been relocated to the go.tools
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library (golang-googlecode-gotools), which provide `godoc`.
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