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Re:Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox by codesuki on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:15PM (#21392117)
You could probably write a rule similar to go_repository[1] that would invoke pkgconfig to find the location of local libs instead of downloading a lib.

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-gazelle/blob/master/inte...

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Re:Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox by rienbdj on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:54AM (#21395440)
people have done this rules_cc_foreign or something like that.
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Re:Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox by bennofs on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:23AM (#21397378)
rules_foreign_cc appears to be something different: building projects with other build systems as part of a bazel build. The README does not talk about using prebuilt system libraries at all.

Additionally, adding lots of additional customization on top of the build system itself defeats the purpose of using a popular system in the first place.

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