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0 pointsjunon3y ago0 comments

It does, it's just that it... doesn't work well in practice. It's another case of "this works well for Google but doesn't translate well outside of Google". Plus, seems like Bazel is a very neutered version of Blaze anyway.

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ikiris3y ago· 3 in thread

buildfarm takes away a lot of the neutering.

mihaigalos3y ago

Not sure what to say concerning buildfarm's remote execution.

Reading an issue I've opened almost 2y ago [1], seems the backend requires the client to have a specific gcc version.

That's a strong limitation imho.

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-buildfarm/issues/545

p_l3y ago

This is related to non-hermetic build graph, so the builds have system-provided dependency in GCC, and to make the build sane requires that they are in sync.

ikiris3y ago

Never run into this issue in the real world so.... /shrug

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