Find all aliases depending on a target

[markus....@ecosia.org]

I would like to do something like `bazel query 'kind(alias, rdeps(//..., //target:target))'`, i.e. given a target show me all aliases that are dependent on that target. But it does not seem possible this way. Is this use-case currently supported?

[Alex Humesky]

Seems to work for me:

$ bazel version

Build label: 0.16.1

$ cat a/BUILD

genrule(

  name = "genfoo",

  outs = ["foo"],

  cmd = "echo foo > $@",

  visibility = ["//visibility:public"],

)

$ cat b/BUILD

alias(

  name = "foo",

  actual = "//a:foo"

)

$ bazel query "kind(alias, rdeps(//..., //a:foo))"

//b:foo

We might need more information.

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 6:09 AM <markus....@ecosia.org> wrote:

I would like to do something like `bazel query 'kind(alias, rdeps(//..., //target:target))'`, i.e. given a target show me all aliases that are dependent on that target. But it does not seem possible this way. Is this use-case currently supported?

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