[aur-general] Package fails when built with an AUR helper

[Santiago Torres-Arias]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:21:11PM +0100, Rhys Perry via aur-general wrote:
> Hi,
> 
Hi,

> I maintain the package fathom-git. This is a go package.
> 
> I have had to make the PKGBUILD quite messy because this package requires
> that it is in the GOPATH which also needs a whole folder structure. In order
> for it to build I had to create a custom GOPATH in the SRC directory, copy
> the git repo to there and also make sure it gets removed when the package is
> rebuilt.
> 

This sounds like usual pre-go-modules go building.

> Does anyone know of a better solution for go packages that require something
> to be in GOPATH?

I'm more curious, why does it fail with a helper due to this?

Cheers!
-Santiago
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