Exporting with a dot for current directory throws a Go error

[johncblandii]

Problem

➜ variant export binary . mycli

When exporting a binary, the path must be a directory name or an absolute path. Using the . throw an error.

Error

go: malformed import path ".": invalid path element "."
Error: command "sh -c cd /var/folders/bt/6rr5l1js5w3_49gm0pvqh7wr0000gn/T/variant-.509876642; go mod init . && go build -o /cli/mycli /var/folders/bt/6rr5l1js5w3_49gm0pvqh7wr0000gn/T/variant-.509876642": exit status 1

Possible Solutions

• Expand the path of the first argument . to the relative or absolute path
• Falling back to the second arg as the arg passed to go mod init

[johncblandii]

Since I was building in make, my fix was:

build:
	variant export binary $(CURDIR) mycli