Question about compilation_database target config:

[Michael Ellery]

I'm I bazel newbie, so I apologize in advance if these are trivial questions. Regarding the approach of adding a compilation_database target to the BUILD file:

(1) what does the name property refer to? Does it need to match and existing name in my project?

(2) is there a way to just specify all targets? In my case, I think I care about //src/... and maybe //tests/... (the latter if I want to analyze test sources as well..).

(3) the file also says that exec_root should match bazel info execution_root. In my case, the latter returns a path something like $HOME/.cache/<userid>/<UUID>/execroot/__main__. I wonder if there is way to refer to such a path generically, because this clearly wouldn't be appropriate for other users (it has user id in various parts of the path...).

any advice appreciated.

[Siddhartha Bagaria]

Hi,

It looks like your use case is better resolved by the "Entire Repo" section of the README. Can you see if it works for you?

Thanks!

[Michael Ellery]

ok thanks - I will try the generate script and see if I can make that work.