[BUG] random build context path for services with a long(ish) chain of extends with compose 2.24.2

[luciangabor]

Description

Please see the attached screen recording:

Screencast.from.2024-01-23.14-47-13.webm

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create compose.yaml

services:
  service:
    extends:
      file: dir/file.yaml
      service: service

2. Create dir/file.yaml

services:
  level1:
    build:
      context: ..

  level2:
    extends: level1

  service:
    extends: level2
    build:
      target: target

3. Try to reproduce the issue

watch -n 0.1 docker compose config --no-path-resolution

For me, the behavior is as in the attached screen recording.
If the service from dir/file.yaml extends the level1 service instead, the problem disappears.
If the service from dir/file.yaml lacks the build block, I get, sometimes, the service "service" has neither an image nor a build context specified: invalid compose project error.

Compose Version

Docker Compose version v2.24.2

Docker Environment

No response

Anything else?

No response

[ndeloof]

Can you please try to reproduce with v2.24.3 ?
I guess this has same cause as #11377 (while the fact this isn't deterministic sounds weird to me)

[luciangabor]

v2.24.3? It's not yet released ...
(I was actually hoping that the fix for #11377 fixes this randomness too, but that's now fixed in v2.24.2 and I still get the nondeterministic behavior, so I found a way to reproduce it (at least for me))

[ndeloof]

oh sorry my bad, I got confused with the many releases in a row. So this issue applies to latest. Let me investigate

[ndeloof]

Tried to reproduce with the provided example, but get a stable context definition set to . (including having build removed)

[ndeloof]

I just noticed in your screen recording you're running docker-compose, not docker compose (space). Can you double check docker-compose version actually return v2.24.2 ? Otherwise you have an older version in your PATH

[luciangabor]

:( Maybe running inside a docker helps:

services:
  bug:
    build:
      dockerfile_inline: |
        FROM docker:${DOCKER_CLI_TAG:-cli}
        WORKDIR /root/src
        COPY <<'EOF' /root/src/compose.yaml
        services:
          service:
            extends:
              file: dir/file.yaml
              service: service
        EOF
        COPY <<'EOF' /root/src/dir/file.yaml
        services:
          level1:
            build:
              context: ..
          level2:
            extends: level1
          service:
            extends: level2
            build:
              target: target
        EOF
    init: true
    entrypoint: watch -n0.1 docker compose config --no-path-resolution

I can reproduce it like this (and the current docker:cli image has v2.24.2 of the compose plugin)

[luciangabor]

With a longer chain I consistently get the wrong path (dir instead of .):

services:
  bug:
    build:
      pull: true
      dockerfile_inline: |
        FROM docker:${DOCKER_CLI_TAG:-cli}
        WORKDIR /root/src
        COPY <<'EOF' compose.yaml
        services:
          service:
            extends:
              file: dir/file.yaml
              service: service
        EOF
        COPY <<'EOF' dir/file.yaml
        services:
          level1:
            build:
              context: ..
          level2:
            extends: level1
          level3:
            extends: level2
          level4:
            extends: level3
          level5:
            extends: level4
          level6:
            extends: level5
          level7:
            extends: level6
          level8:
            extends: level7
          service:
            extends: level8
            build:
              target: target
        EOF
    init: true
    entrypoint: watch -n0.1 docker compose config --no-path-resolution