install broken with go 1.16 due to go modules

[vvuk]

go modules are on by default with 1.16, and the repo seems to incorrectly declare its import path. Trying go get results in an error:

vladimir@minim1 ~ % go get github.com/mwiora/NAMEinator
go: downloading github.com/mwiora/NAMEinator v0.0.5
go get: github.com/mwiora/NAMEinator@v0.0.4 updating to
	github.com/mwiora/NAMEinator@v0.0.5: parsing go.mod:
	module declares its path as: NAMEinator
	        but was required as: github.com/mwiora/NAMEinator

[cjmaria]

A fix for this would be really helpful because the new M1 MacBooks can only natively run go 1.16.x because they are on aarch64 processors. This means no-one with a newer MacBook would be able to build NAMEinator without installing an older version of go in an emulated x86_64 mode through rosetta.

Edit:
It seems that it still works if you manually create the folder for the repo:

mkdir /Users/myusername/go/1.16.0/src/github.com/mwiora
cd /Users/myusername/go/1.16.0/src/github.com/mwiora
git clone https://github.com/mwiora/NAMEinator.git
cd NAMEinator
go build
./NAMEinator

[Lalarian]

Don't know hot to do this, I don't have any version-named directory in ~/go There's just 'pkg' inside.
Could have used this tool today :(

[mattdneal]

Don't know hot to do this, I don't have any version-named directory in ~/go There's just 'pkg' inside. Could have used this tool today :(

Just run "go version" to find your version number (it'll be x.y.z, e.g. 1.17.2), then use mkdir to create the directory.

mkdir /Users/myusername/go/1.16.0/src/github.com/mwiora

add a -p to create intermediate directories...

mkdir -p  /Users/myusername/go/1.16.0/src/github.com/mwiora

[fohrloop]

Simply running

git clone https://github.com/mrwiora/NAMEinator.git
cd NAMEinator
go build

will work.

[clunkclunk]

It's been a few years, and now building without changing anything results in a linker error, presumably due to old versions:
link: golang.org/x/net/internal/socket: invalid reference to syscall.recvmsg

This worked for me with go1.26.0 on macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 on Apple Silicon. go was installed using brew.

git clone https://github.com/mrwiora/NAMEinator.git
cd NAMEinator
go get golang.org/x/net@latest
go get golang.org/x/sys@latest
go get github.com/miekg/dns@latest
go mod tidy
go build
./NAMEinator

[mrwiora]

yeah thx! I will fix that ASAP.