bazel0.26.0: genrule outputs files in both gendir and bindir irrespective of the value of output_to_bindir

[abhishek-carbon3d]

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Description of the problem / feature request:

genrule outputs files in both gendir and bindir irrespective of the value of output_to_bindir

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

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

test.txt is in both bindir and gendir

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

ubuntu18

What's the output of bazel info release?

release 0.26.0

BTW it works as expected in release 0.22.0 so not sure when it was broken

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

No

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

No

[benjaminp]

#6761

[laurentlb]

This is working as intended: we're removing the distinction between bazel-bin and bazel-genfiles. Is it breaking your code in any way? Can you avoid using output_to_bindir?

We plan to remove the genfiles directory: #8651

[abhishek-carbon3d]

It was breaking some home grown rules for nodejs/ts (hoping to switch over to the rapidly evolving official nodejs toolchain soon :).

We have fixed our rules, but I thought I would report this in case it was not intentional. Closing.