SuperSandro2000 6 months ago

Bazel is the bane of my existence. I have never seen such an anti distro tool that is so hostile against your system libraries.

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  • eddd-ddde 6 months ago

    That's the whole point, you can't rely on systems for hermetic builds.

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  • ycombinatrix 6 months ago

    Bazel was built for reproducible builds. Meaning it literally exists to compile stuff without using your rando sus system libraries.

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pkkm 6 months ago

It's not? I recall reading that coping with a variety of languages was one of the main motivations, but do correct me if I'm wrong and you have a citation.

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  • eacapeisfutuile 6 months ago

    They do hermetic builds so that it is viable at large scale via granular caching. They were made to make that work at those scales, with pretty much zero consideration for any external package managers or anything like that

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    • pkkm 6 months ago

      Hm, I did some searching. Bazel's FAQ mentions multi-language support prominently, but only suggests speed and reliability as the initial motivations. I'll edit my post.

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      • eacapeisfutuile 6 months ago

        Yeah that is a thing for sure, was just commenting on why it was created :)

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