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Re:Bazel Build System Support for LLVM by q3k on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:20PM (#24926390)
To build Bazel from source in an environment where you don't want to use any Internet binaries, you need a Java built from source. Needing a Java is painful. You also need a Bazel to build Bazel.

And Bazel's build system itself IIRC wants to download stuff from the Internet on build - which can be pre-fetched, but distro maintainers still don't like having to deal with taht.

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Re:Bazel Build System Support for LLVM by vips7L on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:50AM (#24930438)
This is nonsense building OpenJDK from source should be as easy as:

    bash configure && make images
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Re:Bazel Build System Support for LLVM by mehrdadn on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:23PM (#24926407)
Edit: never mind, I think I was confused what the comment was saying.
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Re:Bazel Build System Support for LLVM by SubjectToChange on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:46PM (#24926982)
Look at what Nix or Guix would have to do to build a project using Bazel vs a project using CMake.
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