cmd/go: set GOROOT explicitly for 'go generate' subprocesses

Code generators may reasonably expect to find the GOROOT for which the
code is being generated.

If the generator invokes 'go run' (which ought to be reasonable to do)
and the user has set 'GOFLAGS=trimpath' (which also ought to be
reasonable), then either 'go generate' or 'go run' needs to set GOROOT
explicitly.

I would argue that it is more appropriate for 'go generate' to set
GOROOT than for 'go run' to do so, since a user may reasonably invoke
'go run' to reproduce a user-reported bug in a standalone Go program,
but should not invoke 'go generate' except to regenerate code for a Go
package.

Updates golang#51461.

Change-Id: Iceba233b4eebd57c40cf5dcd4af9031d210dc9d8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/399157
Run-TryBot: Bryan Mills <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <[email protected]>
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <[email protected]>

Author: Bryan C. Mills

src/cmd/go/alldocs.go

@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ Go generate sets several variables when it runs the generator:
 		The line number of the directive in the source file.
 	$GOPACKAGE
 		The name of the package of the file containing the directive.
+	$GOROOT
+		The GOROOT directory for the 'go' command that invoked the
+		generator, containing the Go toolchain and standard library.
 	$DOLLAR
 		A dollar sign.
 
@@ -326,6 +329,7 @@ func isGoGenerate(buf []byte) bool {
 // single go:generate command.
 func (g *Generator) setEnv() {
 	g.env = []string{
+		"GOROOT=" + cfg.GOROOT,
 		"GOARCH=" + cfg.BuildContext.GOARCH,
 		"GOOS=" + cfg.BuildContext.GOOS,
 		"GOFILE=" + g.file,

src/cmd/go/internal/generate/generate.go

@@ -62,13 +62,20 @@ stderr 'cannot find package "runtime" in any of:\n\t\(\$GOROOT not set\)\n\t'$WO
 stdout '^GOROOT $'
 stdout 'cannot find package "runtime" in any of:\n\t\(\$GOROOT not set\)\n\t'$WORK${/}gopath${/}src${/}runtime' \(from \$GOPATH\)$'
 
+env GOFLAGS=-trimpath
+go generate .
+stdout '^GOROOT '$TESTGO_GOROOT'$'
+stdout '^runtime '$TESTGO_GOROOT${/}src${/}runtime'$'
+
 -- go.mod --
 module example
 
 go 1.19
 -- main.go --
 package main
 
+//go:generate go run .
+
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"go/build"