Malformed build tag

Reports malformed build tags and build tags in the incorrect location. The go tool expects build tags to be located in particular places and follow a special syntax. If these requirements are not followed, build tags could either be ignored or the files could be incorrectly excluded from the build.

See Build Constraints at go.dev.

Example:

package main

// +build ignore

func main() {}

The // +build ignore part should be before the package declaration. To fix that, you can apply the Place build tag before package quick-fix. After the quick-fix is applied:

// +build ignore

package main

import "fmt"

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GoBuildTag

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | Probable bugs

Inspection ID: GoBuildTag

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GoBuildTag

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

GoLand 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	GoLand 2025.2, Qodana for Go 2025.2,
Can be installed with plugin:	Go, 252.26654.0

Last modified: 18 September 2025