Cannot be used as bazel lib: BUILD file not found in directory

[sammi]

When add bazel lib reference in my repo like:

http_archive(
    name = "com_github_jbeder_yaml_cpp",
    sha256 = "77ea1b90b3718aa0c324207cb29418f5bced2354c2e483a9523d98c3460af1ed",
    strip_prefix = "yaml-cpp-yaml-cpp-0.6.3",
    urls = [
        "https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/archive/yaml-cpp-0.6.3.tar.gz",
    ],
)

And then run bazel build ...

I got errors:

C:\Users\songy\tuware>bazel build ...
Extracting Bazel installation...
Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it...
INFO: Writing tracer profile to 'C:/users/songy/_bazel_songy/n435ocyg/command.profile.gz'
ERROR: C:/users/songy/tuware/cluster/BUILD:8:1: no such package '@com_github_jbeder_yaml_cpp//': BUILD file not found in directory '' of external repository @com_github_jbeder_yaml_cpp. Add a BUILD file to a directory to mark it as a package. and referenced by '//cluster:cluster_test'
ERROR: Analysis of target '//cluster:cluster_test' failed; build aborted: no such package '@com_github_jbeder_yaml_cpp//': BUILD file not found in directory '' of external repository @com_github_jbeder_yaml_cpp. Add a BUILD file to a directory to mark it as a package.
INFO: Elapsed time: 12.647s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (15 packages loaded, 59 targets configured)

When I check the release source code: https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/archive/yaml-cpp-0.6.3.tar.gz, the build file is not included.

[tt4g]

BUILD.bazel was added after yaml-cpp 0.6.3.

[sammi]

Can we do a new release from current master to include BUILD.bazel?

[tt4g]

I have never used Bazel.

I found git_repository in the documentation but that is deprecated (load(..., "git_repository") is recommended).

• https://docs.bazel.build/versions/0.19.1/be/workspace.html#git_repository

[sammi]

git_repository is not the best practice, we use http_archive by default.

It's pretty easy to do that, just need create a new release from master. I've made it work in my forked version already, no source change are needed. Here is the working version for me, "https://github.com/sammi/yaml-cpp/archive/yaml-cpp-0.6.4.tar.gz".

It would be nice if could make it work in yaml-cpp repo.

http_archive(
    name = "com_github_jbeder_yaml_cpp",
    sha256 = "1df36d25ff796a79bee69ea42ee2b86be09ac9f3582efaf5a26037f09033297b",
    strip_prefix = "yaml-cpp-yaml-cpp-0.6.4",
    urls = [
        "https://github.com/sammi/yaml-cpp/archive/yaml-cpp-0.6.4.tar.gz",
    ],
)

[jbeder]

Yes, we will do a new release, but there are some bugs introduced in the CMake files that need to be resolved first. Probably pinning to a version like git_repository is best for the time being.