Installing godag on ubuntu

Question

On Ubuntu/Linux, I did this:

hg clone https://godag.googlecode.com/hg/ godag

and after this:

go run mk.go install

and it gives me this error:

up 2 date: utilz/stringbuffer 
up 2 date: utilz/walker 
up 2 date: utilz/stringset 
up 2 date: utilz/global 
up 2 date: utilz/handy
up 2 date: utilz/say
up 2 date: utilz/timer
up 2 date: parse/gopt
up 2 date: cmplr/dag
up 2 date: cmplr/gdmake
up 2 date: cmplr/compiler
up 2 date: start/main
linking  : /usr/lib/go/bin/gd
cannot create /usr/lib/go/bin/gd: No such file or directory
2014/10/05 11:05:40 [ERROR] exit status 1
exit status 1

Tried sudo go run mk.go -B=gcc install but I get the same error. Googled the problem and tried all possible combinations, but still no luck.

Answer 1

The error maybe because the directory /usr/lib/go/bin/ does not exist:

$ sudo go run mk.go install
compiling: utilz/stringbuffer
# ...
compiling: start/main
linking  : /usr/lib/go/bin/gd
cannot create /usr/lib/go/bin/gd: No such file or directory
2014/10/02 19:14:51 [ERROR] exit status 1
exit status 1
$ ls /usr/lib/go/
doc/         favicon.ico  lib/         pkg/         src/         
$ sudo mkdir /usr/lib/go/bin
$ sudo go run mk.go install
up 2 date: utilz/stringbuffer
# ...
up 2 date: start/main
linking  : /usr/lib/go/bin/gd

Just create the directory using sudo mkdir /usr/lib/go/bin and you should be fine.