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init not working on macOS

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, macos
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing refresh init and refresh run on macOS with the command output shown. Inspect the CLI paths responsible for creating the default configuration and launching the rebuilt binary; done means refresh init creates refresh.yml and refresh run executes successfully without a manually created config.

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Description

Unsure on what is happening but refresh init is not creating the default yml file.
Note that the refresh.yml.bak file is just my backup file to submit this issue.
Also note that the project is outside GOPATH and it seems to make no difference if GO111MODULE=on is set.

> ls -l
total 24088
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gus  staff       130 25 Aug 18:28 Makefile
-rwxr-xr-x  1 gus  staff  12272428 25 Aug 18:26 backend*
-rw-------  1 gus  staff      2930 25 Aug 18:24 go.mod
-rw-------  1 gus  staff     39189 25 Aug 18:24 go.sum
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gus  staff      2235 25 Aug 17:38 main.go
drwxr-xr-x  5 gus  staff       160 25 Aug 12:52 pkg/
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gus  staff       997 25 Aug 18:27 refresh.yml.bak
drwxr-xr-x  4 gus  staff       128 25 Aug 14:27 vendor/
> refresh init
Refresh (1.4.0)

> ls -l
total 24088
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gus  staff       130 25 Aug 18:28 Makefile
-rwxr-xr-x  1 gus  staff  12272428 25 Aug 18:26 backend*
-rw-------  1 gus  staff      2930 25 Aug 18:24 go.mod
-rw-------  1 gus  staff     39189 25 Aug 18:24 go.sum
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gus  staff      2235 25 Aug 17:38 main.go
drwxr-xr-x  5 gus  staff       160 25 Aug 12:52 pkg/
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gus  staff       997 25 Aug 18:27 refresh.yml.bak
drwxr-xr-x  4 gus  staff       128 25 Aug 14:27 vendor/

Unable to get any more verbose output from the binary.

refresh run runs without the config file but does not work:

> refresh run
Refresh (1.4.0)

2019/08/25 18:32:49 No configuration loaded, proceeding with defaults
refresh: 2019/08/25 18:32:49 === Rebuild on: :start: ===
refresh: 2019/08/25 18:32:49 === Running: go build -v -o   (PID: 48379) ===
refresh: 2019/08/25 18:32:50 === Building Completed (PID: 48379) (Time: 759.844718ms) ===
refresh: 2019/08/25 18:32:50 === fork/exec : no such file or directory
 ===

However it works fine when I manually create a refresh.yml file.

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