Golang cannot find/use vendor folder

Question

Does anyone have a clue about why do I get an _in front of the $GOPATH and $GOROOT when I import github.com/juju/errors e.g.

repo structure

-$GOPATH/src/github.com/codelingo/lexicon/vendor
-$GOPATH/src/github.com/codelingo/lexicon/codelingo/ast/go/src/main.go
-$GOPATH/src/github.com/codelingo/lexicon/codelingo/ast/go/src/node/node.go

main.go with line number

1 package main
2
3 import (
4   "encoding/json"
5   "fmt"
6   "os"
7   "strings"
8
9   "github.com/juju/errors"
10
11  "./key"
12  "./node"
13  "./parser"
14  "./property"
15  "./util"
16 )
// rest of main.go

node.go with line number

1 package node
2
3 import (
4   "encoding/json"
5   "github.com/juju/errors"
6   "reflect"
7)
//rest of node.go

$ go run main.go 
node/node.go:5:2: cannot find package "_/home/jzhu/go/src/github.com/codelingo/lexicon/codelingo/ast/go/src/vendor/github.com/juju/errors" in any of:
    /usr/local/go/src/_/home/jzhu/go/src/github.com/codelingo/lexicon/codelingo/ast/go/src/vendor/github.com/juju/errors (from $GOROOT)
    /home/jzhu/go/src/_/home/jzhu/go/src/github.com/codelingo/lexicon/codelingo/ast/go/src/vendor/github.com/juju/errors (from $GOPATH)

The vendor folder contains the above packages and main.go can use it (e.g. import ("github.com/juju/errors")).

The vendor folder is under my $GOPATH (/home/jzhu/go)

Note: there is a weird "_" in front of the package path.

I was expecting something as following which looks into the vendor tree.

vendor/github.com/codelingo/lingo/service/server/service.go:10:2: cannot find package "github.com/codelingo/platform/controller/graphdb/query/result" in any of:
    /home/jzhu/go/src/github.com/codelingo/platform/vendor/github.com/codelingo/platform/controller/graphdb/query/result (vendor tree)
    /home/jzhu/go/src/github.com/vendor/github.com/codelingo/platform/controller/graphdb/query/result
    /usr/local/go/src/github.com/codelingo/platform/controller/graphdb/query/result (from $GOROOT)
    /home/jzhu/go/src/github.com/codelingo/platform/controller/graphdb/query/result (from $GOPATH)

Environment:

$go env

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/jzhu/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build894537960=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"

$ go version
go version go1.8.3 linux/amd64

$ glide --version
glide version 0.13.0-dev

Junyu Junyu · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-14T02:42:04

The solution is to use the correct relative path to package in import. e.g import "github.com/codelingo/lexicon/codelingo/ast/go/src/node" instead of import "./node" in main.go

https://github.com/Masterminds/glide/issues/602

Golang cannot find/use vendor folder

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