--override_repository relative to workspace root

[Kirill Zabelin]

Hello!

We are trying to use --override_repository option to use some local rules instead of getting them from upstream (for example rules_cc, etc) and we don't want to change WORKSPACE file to set them up (via local_repository), just want to be able to configure it via flags in .bazelrc.

But --override_repository requires an absolute path (which may differ on different machines).

These repositories are under the main WORKSPACE tree.

Is it possible to use some variable/template in bazelrc file to get path to WORKSPACE root? Or some other ways to do it?

It seems that %workspace% works only for imports and some other specific flags :(

Thanks,

Kirill

[Keith Smiley]

I think you'd have to change the WORKSPACE. What's the issue with doing that?

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