Documentation: make build before running ./fabio

[strarsis]

fabio binary has to be built first after go get github.com/eBay/fabio using

make build

It may be useful in documentation.

[magiconair]

That is not necessary since go get will run go install which will build a binary for fabio and store it in $GOPATH/bin Only, if you want a fully static binary on OSX then you need the Makefile since it sets the -tags netgo for the linker. On Linux this is the default. You can check that with ldd fabio and should get no dependencies.

Also, go build has the same effect. The only thing the Makefile does really is to ensure the git hash is stored in the main.version variable.

I've written the Makefile mainly for myself for the release process but gaging from this ticket it may confuse more than it helps. Maybe I should put it in the build directory

[strarsis]

Thank you for your answer.

Yes, go get will also build the binary.
The binary will be in folder ./bin/,
so it may be helpful to change the example
("To start fabio run") in documentation from

./fabio

to

./bin/fabio

I expected the binary being directly in work dir because of ./fabio.

[magiconair]

The binary will only be in an unexpected folder if you set your GOPATH per project. Also, then go get will put the binary into $GOPATH/bin whereas the source lives in $GOPATH/src/github.com/eBay/fabio. I'm going to close this as wontfix since this is the documented behavior of Go apps.