FWIW: I instead started organizing my workspace in the GOPATH layout (that is, I have GOPATH=~ and put a C project cloned from github.com/foo/bar at ~/src/githu

FWIW: I instead started organizing my workspace in the GOPATH layout (that is, I have GOPATH=~ and put a C project cloned from github.com/foo/bar at ~/src/github.com/foo/bar too). It also helps knowing where $random_repo was cloned from. YMMV