Ok, I think this PR has been around long enough and has a couple other sets
of eyes on it. I made tweaks based on the feedback. I will merge it later
tonight. Feel free to take a final look. Thanks to those who helped review
the changes.

https://github.com/apache/incubator-heron/pull/3779

On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 4:38 PM Nicholas Nezis <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ok, so a lot more Bazel related cleanup on that PR.
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-heron/pull/3779
>
> 1. Removed Docker specific `bazel.rc`
>   a. No longer needed now that we have JDK 11 and it works better in Docker
> 2. Removed Travis specific cross-compile toolchain
>   a. No longer needed now that Travis CI is using a modern OS version
> 3. Removed Travis specific `bazel.rc`
>   a. I don't think this is needed. This was due to the old OS and limited
> VM resources. Can put back if necessary, but the tests seem to be passing
> just fine. Even faster than before.
> 4. Removed ancient `Applatix` CI scripts
>   a. Not used or maintained. They were acquired by Intuit in 2018.
> 5. Updated documentation
>   a. Including a switch from installing Bazel to Bazelisk. This will help
> with documentation maintenance.
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 2:23 AM Nicholas Nezis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> While working through a bug we ran into with MacOS failing to compile, I
>> got a better understanding of some of the Bazel settings. In another thread
>> with Josh, who is compiling on the Apple M1 for the first time, he ran into
>> issues with Linux vs OSX.
>>
>> It dawned on me that we were explicitly setting the config to modify a
>> number of settings. Some of them include the following items:
>> 1. Platform libraries (Linux C libraries)
>> 2. Platform + CPU decision on which binary to use (Helm binary)
>> 3. OS decision (MacOS unique steps vs Linux as the default)
>> 4. Optimization setting (We just hardcoded to C03, but Bazel reported as
>> "fastbuild")
>> 5. Stylecheck toggle (darwin vs darwin_nostyle)
>>
>> In a recent PR, I collapsed all of the Linux flavors to a standard
>> `--config=linux`. This was born out of my frustration with the build
>> scripts not jiving with Bazel standards. But it was not actually solving
>> the problem. I'm hoping that this PR will help resolve some of the issues.
>>
>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-heron/pull/3779
>>
>> Changes:
>> 1. No longer need to set `--config`. Bazel will detect the OS
>> automatically.
>> 2. Default is `fastbuild`, but you can add `-c opt` to build optimized
>> build.
>>   a. You can even build both side by side with Bazel making a folder like
>> darwin-fastbuild and darwin-opt
>> 3. If you want to run stylecheck, you can add `--config=stylecheck`
>> 4. The Linux libraries (-lm, -lpthread, -lrt) are included in
>> `tools/platform/BUILD`
>> 5. As we add support for ARM, we can add more options in
>> `tools/platform/BUILD`
>> 6. Scripts outside of Bazel were updated to remove `--config`.
>> 7. Scripts outside of Bazel will specify  `-c opt` or
>> `--config=stylecheck` when needed.
>>
>

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