genrule outputs in bazel-bin instead of bazel-genfiles

[regisd]

Description of the problem / feature request:

I think this is a regression in Bazel 1.1 compared to 0.27

The genrule (and custom rules which have output_to_genfiles = True) outputs to bazel-bin instead of bazel-genfiles.

Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

genrule(
    name = "hello",
    outs = ["hello.txt"],
    srcs = ["BUILD"],
    cmd = "echo $(RULEDIR) > $@",
    output_to_bindir=0,
)

bazel build //:hello

Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it...
INFO: Writing tracer profile to '/private/var/tmp/_bazel_regis/15bee190ff4e5724bdd67af04a5d1215/command.profile.gz'
INFO: Analyzed target //:hello (5 packages loaded, 8 targets configured).
INFO: Found 1 target...
Target //:hello up-to-date:
bazel-bin/hello.txt
INFO: Elapsed time: 5.655s, Critical Path: 0.11s
INFO: 1 process: 1 darwin-sandbox.
INFO: Build completed successfully, 2 total actions

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

Mac OS Mojave

What's the output of bazel info release?

release 1.1.0

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

The bazel-genfiles symlink is not created at all.

[crorvick]

I think this was intentional, see #6761.

[regisd]

Right, it is indeed.