When building a custom linter, the resulting `custom-gcl` cannot find `canonicalheader`

[gmlewis]

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Description of the problem

Using this PR: google/go-github#3447
I create a custom linter locally by running:

$ go version
go version go1.23.5 darwin/arm64

$ go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint@latest

$ golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version v1.63.4 built with go1.23.5 from (unknown, modified: ?, mod sum: "h1:bJQFQ3hSfUto597dkL7ipDzOxsGEpiWdLiZ359OWOBI=") on (unknown)

$ golangci-lint -v custom
INFO Cloning golangci-lint repository
INFO Adding plugin imports
INFO generated imports info /var/folders/yx/06mn6xqd12d98bcbspd4h69w0000gn/T/custom-gcl3726798118/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint/plugins.go:
package main

import (
        _ "github.com/google/go-github/v68/tools/sliceofpointers"
)

INFO Adding replace directives
INFO run: go mod edit -replace github.com/google/go-github/v68/tools/sliceofpointers=/Users/glenn/go/src/github.com/google/go-github/tools/sliceofpointers
INFO Running go mod tidy
INFO Building golangci-lint binary
INFO Moving golangci-lint binary

$ ls -l custom-gcl && file custom-gcl
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 glenn  staff  32275474 Jan 21 14:58 custom-gcl
custom-gcl: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

$ ./custom-gcl -v linters
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/glenn/go/src/github.com/google/go-github /Users/glenn/go/src/github.com/google /Users/glenn/go/src/github.com /Users/glenn/go/src /Users/glenn/go /Users/glenn /Users /]
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml
WARN [config_reader] The configuration option `run.skip-dirs-use-default` is deprecated, please use `issues.exclude-dirs-use-default`.
INFO Loaded : sliceofpointers
Error: unknown linters: 'canonicalheader', run 'golangci-lint help linters' to see the list of supported linters
Failed executing command with error: unknown linters: 'canonicalheader', run 'golangci-lint help linters' to see the list of supported linters

Version of golangci-lint

$ golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version v1.63.4 built with go1.23.5 from (unknown, modified: ?, mod sum: "h1:bJQFQ3hSfUto597dkL7ipDzOxsGEpiWdLiZ359OWOBI=") on (unknown)

Configuration

n/a

Go environment

$ go version && go env
go version go1.23.5 darwin/arm64

Verbose output of running

$ golangci-lint cache clean
$ golangci-lint run -v
INFO golangci-lint has version v1.63.4 built with go1.23.5 from (unknown, modified: ?, mod sum: "h1:bJQFQ3hSfUto597dkL7ipDzOxsGEpiWdLiZ359OWOBI=") on (unknown)
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/glenn/go/src/github.com/google/go-github /Users/glenn/go/src/github.com/google /Users/glenn/go/src/github.com /Users/glenn/go/src /Users/glenn/go /Users/glenn /Users /]
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml
INFO Loaded : sliceofpointers
Error: build linters: plugin(sliceofpointers): plugin "sliceofpointers" not found
Failed executing command with error: build linters: plugin(sliceofpointers): plugin "sliceofpointers" not found

A minimal reproducible example or link to a public repository

google/go-github#3447

Validation

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[boring-cyborg]

Hey, thank you for opening your first Issue ! 🙂 If you would like to contribute we have a guide for contributors.

[ccoVeille]

Try the following command

custom-gcl version

or add a -v to your call to custom-gcl run

You might find out the custom-gcl uses an older version.

There is the version of golangci-lint in the .custom-gcl.yaml file you have

I got the problem once

[ldez]

This is because you define golangci-lint v1.57 as a base for your custom build.

https://github.com/gmlewis/go-github/blob/7fa7c02119d95db734e3497e77db461f38b8d7c7/.custom-gcl.yml#L1

canonicalheader has been added in v1.58: https://golangci-lint.run/usage/linters/#canonicalheader

[gmlewis]

This is because you define golangci-lint v1.57 as a base for your custom build.

Thank you, @ldez !

I apologize for the noise.