bazel: Source forest creation fails with inconsistently-capitalised path references
I think Bazel doesn’t handle capitalised letters in directories very well, and having some inconsistencies in referencing a directory within BUILD files can lead to this.
ERROR: Source forest creation failed: Command failed cmd.exe /c mklink /J "C:\tools\msys64\var\tmp\Bazel\$KNt4ZiP\execroot\<dir>" "C:\tools\msys64\home\rok\<dir>".
Note that the above <dir> will have the same capitalisation in both cases, which makes this problem even more difficult to debug.
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- State: closed
- Created 8 years ago
- Comments: 17 (14 by maintainers)
This looks more likely using the delete function in Bazel’s JNI library. The error message was thrown from here. I had a change to simplify and optimize
plantSymlinkForest, but it broke something else and was rollbacked. I will follow up on this.