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People should essentially never set GOROOT. It's mostly a holdover. For example, Ian Lance Taylor on the core Go team wrote [0] somewhat recently:

"It's a special purpose hook that is almost never needed".

[0] https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/qDhJbkE1QeY/m/JoV2...

It's either habbit or you are doing something out of the ordinary with your Go installation. The standard installation of Go has not required GOROOT for a very long time.

I use Makefiles for my projects, and right at the top I do:

GOBIN := $(shell go env GOBIN)

And then use that var where needed.