How to load local go file by using gore

I installed gore to use REPL.

And I want to check behavior of a ParseFullTimeSpec function in this file.

https://github.com/dshearer/jobber/blob/master/jobfile/time_spec.go#L79

I tried by :import github.com/dshearer/jobber/jobfile/time_spec.go, but it returned a error error: import: can't find import:

I also tried relative path after git clone, but I couldn't import it anyway.

What is a right way to load the go file from gore?

Installing the package to workplace

To install the package to my workplace I did like this:

mkdir $GOPATH/src/github.com/dshearer
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/dshearer
git clone git@github.com:dshearer/jobber.git
go install github.com/dshearer/jobber/jobfile

It returns a error:

# github.com/dshearer/jobber/common
src/github.com/dshearer/jobber/common/sudo.go:15: undefined: sudo_cmd

And I couldn't install common package with a error undefined: sudo_cmd.

go install github.com/dshearer/jobber/common
# github.com/dshearer/jobber/common
src/github.com/dshearer/jobber/common/sudo.go:15: undefined: sudo_cmd

You need to import the package itself, which that file is a part of. You can't import files separately in go.

:import github.com/dshearer/jobber/jobfile

So there two problems:

1. You can import packages, but not specific files (package might contain multiple files)

2. The source code and error about sudo_cmd - sudo_cmd is available only on Linux and FreeBSD platforms. See:

   nkts@zulu ~ $ ls -l go/src/github.com/dshearer/jobber/common/sudo_cmd_*
   -rw-rw-r--. 1 nkts nkts 214 Nov 22 22:28 go/src/github.com/dshearer/jobber/common/sudo_cmd_freebsd.go
   -rw-rw-r--. 1 nkts nkts 229 Nov 22 22:28 go/src/github.com/dshearer/jobber/common/sudo_cmd_linux.go

So it should not work on Windows or MacOSX.

But clearly works on Linux (with auto complete):

nkts@zulu ~ $ go get -u github.com/motemen/gore
nkts@zulu ~ $ go get -v github.com/dshearer/jobber/jobfile
github.com/dshearer/jobber (download)
github.com/dshearer/jobber/Godeps/_workspace/src/gopkg.in/yaml.v2
github.com/dshearer/jobber/common
github.com/dshearer/jobber/jobfile
nkts@zulu ~ $ gore
gore version 0.2.6  :help for help
gore> :import github.com/dshearer/jobber/jobfile
gore> jobfile.ErrorHandlerStopNam^C

Your last output seems to show you're doing it right, but the source code you're using is not in proper state:

go install github.com/dshearer/jobber/common
# github.com/dshearer/jobber/common
src/github.com/dshearer/jobber/common/sudo.go:15: undefined: sudo_cmd

Looking at the sources for jobber, it appears it has a Makefile, which is supposed to add the missing function for your architecture.

This project actually has specific install instructions, you can find them here.

cd /path/to/your/workspace
go get github.com/dshearer/jobber
cd src/github.com/dshearer/jobber
git checkout v1.1
make GO_WKSPC=/path/to/your/workspace

PS: note that the canonical way to install dependency in your $GOPATH is to use go get:

go get host.com/namespace/package

This is not enough here, though, as package author decided to have an adhoc build mechanism.