Rules in Bazel often need information from their dependencies. My previous post touched on a special case of this: figuring out what a dependency’s runfiles are. However, Skylark is actually capable of passing arbitrary information between rules using a system known as providers. Suppose we have a rule, analyze_flavors, that figures out what all ofContinue reading “Communicating between Bazel rules: how to use Skylark providers”
Snail in a Turtleneck
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