Bazel 0.16.0 breaks building Gerrit

[Hector Oswaldo Caballero]

Just a word of warning. Updating to latest Bazel breaks the Gerrit build. I've already reported this to the Bazel group:

  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bazel-discuss/zODjrcJtk2E

Reinstalling the previous version (0.15.2) allows the build to succeed again.

By the way, for those using Debian derivatives, the apt repository does not publish older versions so it's not possible to reinstall then using apt-get.

Instead, I just purged the package, downloaded the previous working version and installed it using dpkg:

  sudo apt-get purge bazel

  curl -LO "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/download/0.15.2/bazel_0.15.2-linux-x86_64.deb"

  sudo dpkg -i bazel_*.deb

[David Ostrovsky]

Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2018 14:03:38 UTC+2 schrieb Hector Oswaldo Caballero:

Just a word of warning. Updating to latest Bazel breaks the Gerrit build. I've already reported this to the Bazel group:

  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bazel-discuss/zODjrcJtk2E

I've answered your question on Bazel mailing list.