This workspace shadows //third_party/jdk/...

[Jeremy Edwards]

I cloned bazel and this repository. It appears that I can't do a bazel fetch //... against this repository because it appears to shadow the //third_party/jdk from the base_workspace.

ERROR: /home/jeremyje/development/trunk/tools/defaults/BUILD:13:1: no such target '//tools/jdk:GenClass_deploy.jar': target 'GenClass_deploy.jar' not declared in package 'tools/jdk' defined by /home/jeremyje/development/trunk/tools/jdk/BUILD and referenced by '//tools/defaults:genclass'.

Also it's not clear how I use trunk workspace. I'm trying to use a separate workspace that utilize trunk and the base_workspace but it's not clear how to do that. Can you provide an example WORKSPACE file in the docs?

[alexweili]

This can be fixed by adding one line in BUILD file of the directory:
exports_files([
+++ "GenClass_deploy.jar",
"JavaBuilder_deploy.jar",
"SingleJar_deploy.jar",
])

[Jeremy Edwards]

Thanks, that fixes it.

I also figured out how to use this properly. You have to add this workspace to the ~/.bazelrc. I thought it was supposed to use workspace bindings.

[Ming Zhao]

The suggested change is now committed, welcome to just send pull request next time.
Thanks!