This is a bit more of a Bazel question than a gRPC question. I don't see anything from from your code fragment however, and I'm not aware of anything that could cause bazel to crash like you are reporting. This is basically how we handle our dependencies. See gflags for instance:
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/WORKSPACE#L65 https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/WORKSPACE#L36 https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/test/cpp/util/BUILD#L43 On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:38 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've set up a local_repository in our WORKSPACE file, and would like to > leverage bind to prevent having to change the BUILD files. > > From the documentation, it seems I should be able to do something like the > following: > > bind( > name = "grpc", > actual = "@grpc//:grpc", > ) > > local_repository( > name = "grpc", > path = "third_party/google/grpc", > ) > > And the BUILD dependency should become: "//external:grpc" whereas it was > previously "//third_party/google/grpc:gprc". > > However, if I try to do this, I hit the following exception: > > java.lang.RuntimeException: Unrecoverable error while evaluating node > 'CONFIGURED_TARGET://lb:ip-forwarder-main eeab51cc7d46801c1a05a5f646430553 > (936318221 375452941)' (requested by nodes > 'CONFIGURED_TARGET://lb/testing:ip_forwarder_test > eeab51cc7d46801c1a05a5f646430553 (1211325356 375452941)') > at com.google.devtools.build.skyframe.ParallelEvaluator$Evaluate.run( > ParallelEvaluator.java:438) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.concurrent.AbstractQueueVisitor$ > WrappedRunnable.run(AbstractQueueVisitor.java:501) > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker( > ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run( > ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.packages. > NonconfigurableAttributeMapper.get(NonconfigurableAttributeMapper.java:45) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.bazel.rules.BazelRuleClassProvider$ > BazelPrerequisiteValidator.isTestOnlyRule(BazelRuleClassProvider.java:266) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.bazel.rules.BazelRuleClassProvider$ > BazelPrerequisiteValidator.validateDirectPrerequisiteForTestOnly( > BazelRuleClassProvider.java:252) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.bazel.rules.BazelRuleClassProvider$ > BazelPrerequisiteValidator.validate(BazelRuleClassProvider.java:196) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis.RuleContext$Builder. > validateDirectPrerequisite(RuleContext.java:1954) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis.RuleContext$Builder. > createTargetMap(RuleContext.java:1626) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis.RuleContext$Builder. > build(RuleContext.java:1465) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis.ConfiguredTargetFactory. > createRule(ConfiguredTargetFactory.java:245) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis.ConfiguredTargetFactory. > createConfiguredTarget(ConfiguredTargetFactory.java:176) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeBuildView. > createConfiguredTarget(SkyframeBuildView.java:491) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ConfiguredTargetFunction. > createConfiguredTarget(ConfiguredTargetFunction.java:1094) > at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ConfiguredTargetFunction. > compute(ConfiguredTargetFunction.java:251) > at com.google.devtools.build.skyframe.ParallelEvaluator$Evaluate.run( > ParallelEvaluator.java:373) > ... 4 more > > > Any idea why this is happening? What is the right way to use bind to refer > to the local_repository? I know I can refer to the local_repository > directly from the BUILD files using "@grpc//:grpc", but I'm trying to avoid > having to do this. > > Thanks, > Ilina > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > grpc.io" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/grpc-io/4ddb1266-1190-475a-9118-b5088474637c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/4ddb1266-1190-475a-9118-b5088474637c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/CAEvr0PHK0%3DZKt2YxWavahOHap%3DYtVCnocsQE%3DP1AVfAugpLKtQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
