Custom packages are not found when imported

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by astronfo:

Compile any Go source file that imports a custom package (the official 
tutorial at http://golang.org/doc/go_tutorial.html#tmp_164 fails, too)

Instead of the expected output, 8g produces error: "fatal error: can't find 
import: name_of_package". Specifying the include directory with -I does not 
help, either.


$GOOS=linux, $GOARCH=386, revision changeset 3975:b51fd2d6c160

Thanks in advance.

[agl]

Comment 1:

You should create a Makefile in the style of the other package Makefiles (see 
src/pkg/crypto/rc4/Makefile) and run `make install`.
(This is more of a mailing list item than a bug if you have follow up questions.)

Status changed to WontFix.

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Comment 2 by tony.landells:

I disagree--it shouldn't require some Makefile magic to have 'import "./file"' import
file.go from the current directory. Particularly, as the original poster mentions,
when you use examples like this in the tutorial.
If it requires some special magic to make it work intuitively there should at least
be a big fat note in the tutorial where you introduce this feature. But honestly,
having to jump through hoops to make (apparently) obvious things work will seriously
impact the uptake of the language.

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Comment 3 by tony.landells:

Okay, so I've finally worked out that import *isn't* like #include--it's more like
linking against a library.
I couldn't find anything about this in the docs, and specifically in the tutorial it
implies that you can just create file.go and reference it with 'import "./file"'
which is pretty misleading.
So the problem doesn't seem to be with import, it seems to be with the documentation.