$(execpath :filegroup) and $(rootpath :filegroup) give incorrect error messages #13494
Labels
bad error messaging
Issues where users get stuck because they don't understand what they did wrong
P2
We'll consider working on this in future. (Assignee optional)
team-OSS
Issues for the Bazel OSS team: installation, release processBazel packaging, website
type: feature request
Description of the problem / feature request:
using
$(execpath :filegroup)
and$(rootpath :filegroup)
where:filegroup
expands to more than one file correctly give an error, but the error text is incorrect in that is sayswhere as it should mention e.g.
execpath
andexecpaths
.Feature requests: what underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
This error message should be updated.
Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.
What operating system are you running Bazel on?
Linux 20.04
What's the output of
bazel info release
?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: