Compile: version "go1.13" does not match go tool version "go1.13.8"

Mark_Pendrick · February 15, 2020, 5:33pm

I am a go novice
trying to build on my Mac
get this error I have uninstalled go and reinstalled go via brew

prometheus-exporter-netapp (master) $ make
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make clean
rm -rf target
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make build-all
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make build-darwin
CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build -a -tags netgo -ldflags ‘-w’ -o target/darwin/prometheus-exporter-netapp

unicode/utf8

compile: version “go1.13” does not match go tool version “go1.13.8”

encoding

compile: version “go1.13” does not match go tool version “go1.13.8”

gitlab $ echo $PATH
/Users/mark.pendrick/gocode/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
gitlab $ echo $GOPATH
/Users/mark.pendrick/gocode
gitlab $

lutzhorn · February 15, 2020, 6:59pm

Why don’t you install Go from https://golang.org/dl/?

christophberger · February 16, 2020, 1:37pm

@Mark_Pendrick

Most probably you have two standard lib installations on your system, one from the original Go installation, and the other one from the brew installation. The Go tools use $GOROOT to find the standard library, and apparently $GOROOT points to the wrong one.

Call go env GOROOT. With a Homebrew installation of go, it should point to /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.13.8/libexec. If it doesn’t, change the GOROOT env var in your shell accordingly and look if the error is gone.
In general, you will want to remove all artifacts of the old Go installation. brew install go does not automatically uninstall other (read: non-brew) Go installations.