Starting from go1.14, go verifes that vendor/modules.txt matches the requirements
and replacements listed in the main module go.mod file, and it is a hard failure if
vendor/modules.txt is missing.

Relax module consistency checks and switch back to pre go1.14 behaviour if
vendor/modules.txt is missing regardless of go version requirement in go.mod.

This has been ported from FreeBSD: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24122
See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/37948 for discussion.

diff --git a/src/cmd/go/internal/modload/init.go b/src/cmd/go/internal/modload/init.go
index 71f68efbcc..3c566d04dd 100644
--- a/src/cmd/go/internal/modload/init.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/internal/modload/init.go
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ func checkVendorConsistency() {
 	readVendorList()

 	pre114 := false
-	if modFile.Go == nil || semver.Compare("v"+modFile.Go.Version, "v1.14") < 0 {
+	if modFile.Go == nil || semver.Compare("v"+modFile.Go.Version, "v1.14") < 0 || (os.Getenv("GO_NO_VENDOR_CHECKS") == "1" && len(vendorMeta) == 0) {
 		// Go versions before 1.14 did not include enough information in
 		// vendor/modules.txt to check for consistency.
 		// If we know that we're on an earlier version, relax the consistency check.