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How to show builtin types using `godoc -http=:6060`?


If I start

godoc -http=:6060

and then open http://localhost:6060/pkg/builtin/#string (e.g. via a function declaration that uses string as a type somewhere), I get a big red "open /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.3.3/libexec/src/builtin: no such file or directory".

How do I get godoc to work the same way as http://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#string ?

I tried go get builtin, but that did not change anything. And DuckDuckGo and Google searches did not illuminate me either.

(I've installed Go using Homebrew on OS X.)


Solution

  • Godoc was updated recently to match the new internal layout of Go 1.4.

    Prior to 1.4, system packages went into $GOROOT/src/pkg/, in 1.4 (current dev version) they moved to$GOROOT/src.

    To get the pre-1.4 compatible version:

    cd $GOPATH/src/code.google.com/p/go.tools/cmd/godoc
    hg checkout -C release-branch.go1.3
    go install