make install does nothing

[bentito]

At https://sdk.operatorframework.io/docs/installation/ we tell people to make install. This doesn't actually result in having a binary to use. One must actually do make build, at which point you will find a build dir created and an executable operator-sdk inside it.

[everettraven]

make install worked for me. It installs it into your GOBIN directory which should be in your PATH. If you run make install followed by a which operator-sdk do you get anything?

[bentito]

ok, there was no GOBIN set on this host. No GOROOT env var either. Of course Go knows GOROOT internally. Unfortunately go install runs without complaint (go1.21.3 linux/amd64) even when there is no GOBIN defined. operator-sdk's docs don't mention setting GOBIN and the install target doesn't really enhance go install in this regard. So make install quietly fails to actually install in this scenario.

[varshaprasad96]

Marking this as triage/accepted. Thanks for the PR @bentito

[acornett21]

@varshaprasad96 Can this be closed since the PR has been merged?