doc: mention handling of moved GOROOT in 1.9 release notes

Updates #20587

Change-Id: Ia131b9a4dc4986950d9ecbfcbd6b026ade234fc0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/53370
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>

diff --git a/doc/go1.9.html b/doc/go1.9.html
index aafd03c51f901fc4961a65fadb3012b1fe6a93d8..7cee379c45cf4bf1bebc70eb5db3bade6c9c53e5 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/go1.9.html
+++ b/doc/go1.9.html
@@ -156,6 +156,21 @@ type T1 = T2
   directories, write <code>./vendor/...</code>.
 </p>
 
+<h3 id="goroot">Moved GOROOT</h3>
+
+<p><!-- CL 42533 -->
+  The <a href="/cmd/go/">go tool</a> will now use the path from which it
+  was invoked to attempt to locate the root of the Go install tree.
+  This means that if the entire Go installation is moved to a new
+  location, the go tool should continue to work as usual.
+  This may be overriden by setting <code>GOROOT</code> in the environment,
+  which should only be done in unusual circumstances.
+  Note that this does not affect the result of
+  the <a href="/pkg/runtime/#GOROOT">runtime.GOROOT</a> function, which
+  will continue to report the original installation location;
+  this may be fixed in later releases.
+</p>
+
 <h3 id="compiler">Compiler Toolchain</h3>
 
 <p><!-- CL 37441 -->