I have a small go program in the directory:
~/gocode/src/github.com/elviejo79/goexample/
When I execute
go install
The program does compile but it leaves the executable in the same directory as the code.
but according to How to Write Go Code the binary should in fact be saved at
~/gocode/bin
this my $GOPATH
$ echo $GOPATH
/home/agarcia/gocode
Cannot reproduce this. Please Enter
$ go env
And verify where your GOBIN points to. For example, at the machine I'm right now, it says
09:01 myname@tux64:~$ go env
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN="/home/myname/bin"
GOCHAR="6"
GOEXE=""
GOGCCFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC -m64 -pthread"
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/myname"
GOROOT="/home/myname/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/home/myname/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
09:01 myname@tux64:~$
The go tool should send the binary to $GOBIN. Here it works like that.