bazel: Windows `repository_ctx.execute(command)` sometimes returns incomplete result

This is causing https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/2434 and the internal Kokoro Windows Flakiness: missing “LIB”

Extracting Bazel installation...
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____Loading package: src
____Loading package: @bazel_tools//tools/cpp
____Loading package: @bazel_tools//tools/jdk
____Loading package: @local_config_xcode//
____Loading package: @local_jdk//
ERROR: in target '//external:cc_toolchain': no such package '@local_config_cc//': key "LIB" not found in dictionary.

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State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 18 (18 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

cc_configure: stricter error checks in _execute Add stricter error checks in hopes of catching occasional CI flakiness where the stdout of a command seems to get lost. It's now an error if the comma... — committed to bazelbuild/bazel by laszlocsomor 7 years ago

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I finally figure out the root cause, it’s <del>a one-liner fix</del>. I’ll send it soon.

meteorcloudy on Oct 24, 2017

Well, it turned out to be much more complicated that I thought. But yes! I have a fix under review, it will be fixed soon. https://bazel-review.googlesource.com/#/c/bazel/+/18790/

meteorcloudy on Oct 23, 2017