doc: remove GOROOT custom install instruction

Setting GOROOT is no longer necessary for custom installation as of 1.10 (reference: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/42533). Fixes #25002 Change-Id: Ic3980833ac437b7a20b951df33805ad1071a40ce GitHub-Last-Rev: 156bf65 GitHub-Pull-Request: #25190 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/110435 Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]>
golang · Jun 12, 2018 · 6b3e343 · 6b3e343
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@@ -114,31 +114,6 @@ <h3 id="tarball">Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD tarballs</h3>
 <code>source $HOME/.profile</code>.
 </p>
 
-<h4 id="tarball_non_standard">Installing to a custom location</h4>
-
-<p>
-The Go binary distributions assume they will be installed in
-<code>/usr/local/go</code> (or <code>c:\Go</code> under Windows),
-but it is possible to install the Go tools to a different location.
-In this case you must set the <code>GOROOT</code> environment variable
-to point to the directory in which it was installed.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-For example, if you installed Go to your home directory you should add
-commands like the following to <code>$HOME/.profile</code>:
-</p>
-
-<pre>
-export GOROOT=$HOME/go1.X
-export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
-</pre>
-
-<p>
-<b>Note</b>: <code>GOROOT</code> must be set only when installing to a custom
-location.
-</p>
-
 </div><!-- tarballInstructions -->
 
 <div id="darwinPackageInstructions">