Kubebuilder: Followed quick start but `make test` fails

[functicons]

I followed the quick start, generated a demo project, but then running make test failed with:

[BeforeSuite] BeforeSuite 
.../my-operator/api/v1alpha1/suite_test.go:48

  Unexpected error:
      <*errors.errorString | 0xc0003c63a0>: {
          s: "failed to start the controlplane. retried 5 times: fork/exec /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin/etcd: no such file or directory",
      }
      failed to start the controlplane. retried 5 times: fork/exec /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin/etcd: no such file or directory
  occurred

.../my-operator/api/v1alpha1/suite_test.go:60

Kubebuilder version:

$ kubebuilder version
Version: version.Version{KubeBuilderVersion:"2.0.0-alpha.4", KubernetesVendor:"1.14.1", GitCommit:"a2db52f1f6fab178cb7f0ea51294faca6dfd9509", BuildDate:"2019-06-07T23:12:53Z", GoOs:"unknown", GoArch:"unknown"}

/kind bug

[DirectXMan12]

do you have files in /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin?

[functicons]

Ah, I installed kubebuilder at /$HOME/opt/ instead of /usr/local. It would be nice if the generated test could detect the location automatically.

[functicons]

The problem was solved by adding a symbolic link from /usr/local/kubebuilder to /$HOME/opt/kubebuilder.

[DirectXMan12]

For posterity, you can also set the KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS environment variable.