gomobile: init fails to install gobind because it's missing the version

[gf3]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version

go version go1.17.2 darwin/arm64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

✅

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output

$ go env
GO111MODULE=""

GOARCH="arm64"

GOBIN=""

GOCACHE="/Users/gianni/Library/Caches/go-build"

GOENV="/Users/gianni/Library/Application Support/go/env"

GOEXE=""

GOEXPERIMENT=""

GOFLAGS=""

GOHOSTARCH="arm64"

GOHOSTOS="darwin"

GOINSECURE=""

GOMODCACHE="/Users/gianni/.go/pkg/mod"

GONOPROXY=""

GONOSUMDB=""

GOOS="darwin"

GOPATH="/Users/gianni/.go"

GOPRIVATE=""

GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"

GOROOT="/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.17.2/libexec"

GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"

GOTMPDIR=""

GOTOOLDIR="/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.17.2/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64"

GOVCS=""

GOVERSION="go1.17.2"

GCCGO="gccgo"

AR="ar"

CC="clang"

CXX="clang++"

CGO_ENABLED="1"

GOMOD="/dev/null"

CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_CPPFLAGS=""

CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"

PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"

GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/7g/yp6261y56h307cmzhxr8f7740000gn/T/go-build4244256730=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

What did you do?

gomobile init

What did you see instead?

$ gomobile init

gomobile: go install golang.org/x/mobile/cmd/gobind failed: exit status 1
go install: version is required when current directory is not in a module
	Try 'go install golang.org/x/mobile/cmd/gobind@latest' to install the latest version

Affected area

Source of issue is here: https://github.com/golang/mobile/blob/858099ff7816818cadcc1811d602f42640d33bb5/cmd/gomobile/init.go#L81

[changkun]

duplicate of #50994

[gf3]

thanks @changkun