I have a global constant like this.
const TemplateDir string = "/home/joe/go/src/proj/template/"
Then, later in my code I call this.
template.ParseGlob(filepath.Join(TemplateDir, "*.tmpl"))
I know that filepath.Join(TemplateDir, "*.tmpl") produces /home/joe/go/src/proj/template/*.tmpl.
This all compiles fine. However, when I try to run my executable from a directory outside of proj, I get this error.
html/template: pattern matches no files: `template/*.tmpl`
I'm not sure why I'm getting that error if I passed in an absolute path. Any ideas?
Update I forgot to mention that I'm calling my program through the $PATH variable. That is, I'm not executing ./proj anywhere. I'm just calling proj from my home directory.
So, it turns out that the version I was calling using my $PATH variable was outdated! Here's what happened.
src/proj$ go build
src/proj$ ./proj
That would work fine, but this wouldn't work.
~/$ proj
That's because I forgot to go install my package! After doing go install in my package directory, I could call my program from anywhere.