Why does buildGoModule return "cp: cannot stat '/build/go/pkg/mod/cache/download': No such file or directory"

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I’m trying to download a private go repo files from GitHub, then build and run a program from one of the directories.

Here’s my nix file:

{ stdenv, config, lib, pkgs, fetchurl, buildGoModule, ... }:
let commit = "fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff";
in let token = "ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff";
in let
  github = fetchurl {
  url =
  "https://api.github.com/repos/my_project/my_repo/tarball/${commit}?access_token=${token}";
  sha256 = "fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff";
  name = "my_repo.tar.gz";
};
in let
  derivative = pkgs.runCommand "derivative" { } ''
    mkdir $out
    mkdir /tmp/junk
    tar -zxf ${github} -C /tmp/junk --strip-components=2
    # mv everything correct
    find $out
 '';
in buildGoModule rec {
  name = "main-project";
  version = "2";
  src = "${derivative}";
  modSha256 = "16vbps22dg50i25f6rwc82cvdhdk71i281a9v00wsa21g7bca4pa";
}

So I get …

/nix/store/ymx8gs5z7z4h4andrgg5iy0gxr6v53wd-derivative
/nix/store/ymx8gs5z7z4h4andrgg5iy0gxr6v53wd-derivative/mainFile.go
/nix/store/ymx8gs5z7z4h4andrgg5iy0gxr6v53wd-derivative/go.mod
/nix/store/ymx8gs5z7z4h4andrgg5iy0gxr6v53wd-derivative/go.sum

…
building ‘…’
…
unpacking sources
unpacking source archive …
source root is derivative
patching sources
configuring
building
installing

 cp: cannot stat '/build/go/pkg/mod/cache/download': No such file or directory

What I don’t understand is if I clone that repo on my main system, cd into that directory and run go build ., everything works. Why doesn’t this work?

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BTW you can write all these in a single let, as in

let
  commit = "…";
  token = "…";
  github = fetchurl { … };
  derivative = …;
in buildGoModule rec { …