The actual error happens when trying to emerge packages which use dev-lang/go, not dev-lang/go itself. For example: >>> Emerging (2 of 3) app-admin/consul-0.9.3::gentoo * consul-0.9.3.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/consul-0.9.3/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/consul-0.9.3/work/consul-0.9.3 ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/consul-0.9.3/work/consul-0.9.3 ... >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/consul-0.9.3/work/consul-0.9.3 ... make -j8 -C /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/consul-0.9.3/work/consul-0.9.3/src/github.com/hashicorp/consul dev make: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/consul-0.9.3/work/consul-0.9.3/src/github.com/hashicorp/consul' mkdir -p pkg/linux_amd64/ bin/ go install -ldflags '-X github.com/hashicorp/consul/version.GitCommit= -X github.com/hashicorp/consul/version.GitDescribe=v0.9.3' -tags '' go install github.com/hashicorp/consul: open /usr/lib/go/bin/consul: permission denied make: *** [GNUmakefile:38: dev-build] Error 1 make: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/consul-0.9.3/work/consul-0.9.3/src/github.com/hashicorp/consul' * ERROR: app-admin/consul-0.9.3::gentoo failed (compile phase): * emake failed And same with app-emulation/docker-swarm-1.2.5: … mkdir -p /usr/lib/go/bin/ cp $WORK/github.com/docker/swarm/_obj/exe/a.out /usr/lib/go/bin/swarm go install github.com/docker/swarm: open /usr/lib/go/bin/swarm: permission denied * ERROR: app-emulation/docker-swarm-1.2.5::gentoo failed (compile phase): * (no error message)
Oops, sorry, this is probably a duplicate of bug 631776.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 631776 ***