Installation with bazel 6.0.0

[w4-jihunlorenzopark]

I was using copybara by building binary with bazel and have used bazelisk for a version management.
However, from yesterday, as releasing of bazel 6.0.0, the bazelisk on my local starts to use 6.0.0 and fails when building copybara binary.

bazel build //java/com/google/copybara:copybara_deploy.jar
2022/12/20 16:35:49 Downloading https://releases.bazel.build/6.0.0/release/bazel-6.0.0-darwin-x86_64...
Extracting Bazel installation...
Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it...
ERROR: /Users/user/copybara/third_party/BUILD:159:13: in java_library rule //third_party:starlark: target '@io_bazel//src/main/java/net/starlark/java/annot:annot' is not visible from target '//third_party:starlark'. Check the visibility declaration of the former target if you think the dependency is legitimate
ERROR: /Users/user/copybara/third_party/BUILD:159:13: in java_library rule //third_party:starlark: target '@io_bazel//src/main/java/net/starlark/java/eval:eval' is not visible from target '//third_party:starlark'. Check the visibility declaration of the former target if you think the dependency is legitimate
ERROR: /Users/user/copybara/third_party/BUILD:159:13: in java_library rule //third_party:starlark: target '@io_bazel//src/main/java/net/starlark/java/syntax:syntax' is not visible from target '//third_party:starlark'. Check the visibility declaration of the former target if you think the dependency is legitimate
ERROR: /Users/user/copybara/third_party/BUILD:159:13: Analysis of target '//third_party:starlark' failed
ERROR: Analysis of target '//java/com/google/copybara:copybara_deploy.jar' failed; build aborted: 
INFO: Elapsed time: 50.543s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (92 packages loaded, 1625 targets configured)
    Fetching repository @maven; Resolving and fetching the transitive closure of 26 artifact(s).. 19s

It seems one of the thirdparty is not working well with new release of bazel.
Current workaround would be using USE_BAZEL_VERSION=5.x.x bazel build //java/com/google/copybara:copybara_deploy.jar
How about adding .bazelversion in this repo and specify the recommended version in the file for bazel users?

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk#how-does-bazelisk-know-which-bazel-version-to-run

[mikelalcon]

I think .bazelversion makes sense.

I reproduced myself on Mac too. We also need to figure out why it is not working with Bazel 6.

[mikelalcon]

Actually I spoke too soon. We have an issue with our CI if we set bazel to a fixed version.

[restingbull]

Needs to have the bazel version bumped past: bazelbuild/bazel@01314ce

Mitigation for folks stuck here:

load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")

copybara_commit="609fbe374a96ede32f8db71ad112d2c17d0951ee"
copybara_sha256="5dff2739c16fe61176e10d2dc71f6211fc81a52f0ff1642d0bef5e2f57c643c7"
http_archive(
    name = "com_github_google_copybara",
    sha256 = copybara_sha256,
    strip_prefix = "copybara-%s" % copybara_commit,
    urls = [
        "https://github.com/google/copybara/archive/%s.tar.gz" % copybara_commit,
    ],
)

# workaround for https://github.com/google/copybara/issues/221
load("@com_github_google_copybara//third_party:bazel.bzl", "bazel_version", "bazel_sha256")
http_archive(
  name = "io_bazel",
  sha256 = bazel_sha256,
  strip_prefix = "bazel-%s" % bazel_version,
  url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/archive/%s.zip" %bazel_version,
  patch_cmds = ["""sed -i.bak 's/packages = \\["\\/\\/..."]/packages = ["public"]/' src/main/java/net/starlark/java/BUILD"""]
)

load("@com_github_google_copybara//:repositories.bzl", "copybara_repositories")

copybara_repositories()

load("@com_github_google_copybara//:repositories.maven.bzl", "copybara_maven_repositories")

copybara_maven_repositories()

load("@com_github_google_copybara//:repositories.go.bzl", "copybara_go_repositories")

copybara_go_repositories()

Note -- using head failed for an unrelated reason:

        ^
external/com_github_google_copybara/java/com/google/copybara/onboard/core/AskInputProvider.java:117: error: cannot find symbol
                    var unused = input.convert(s, resolver);
                    ^
  symbol:   class var
  location: class Mode
external/com_github_google_copybara/java/com/google/copybara/onboard/core/InputProviderResolverImpl.java:60: error: cannot find symbol
      var unused = generator.consumes();
      ^
  symbol:   class var
  location: class InputProviderResolverImpl

[Vertexwahn]

I have the same issue with Bazel 6.0.0 on Ubuntu 22.04:

bazel build //java/com/google/copybara gives me

Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it...
INFO: Invocation ID: 7cd9105a-a9ac-43da-8ffb-a865ab877cfc
ERROR: /home/vertexwahn/dev/Piper/third_party/copybara/third_party/BUILD:166:13: in java_library rule //third_party:starlark: target '@io_bazel//src/main/java/net/starlark/java/annot:annot' is not visible from target '//third_party:starlark'. Check the visibility declaration of the former target if you think the dependency is legitimate
ERROR: /home/vertexwahn/dev/Piper/third_party/copybara/third_party/BUILD:166:13: in java_library rule //third_party:starlark: target '@io_bazel//src/main/java/net/starlark/java/eval:eval' is not visible from target '//third_party:starlark'. Check the visibility declaration of the former target if you think the dependency is legitimate
ERROR: /home/vertexwahn/dev/Piper/third_party/copybara/third_party/BUILD:166:13: in java_library rule //third_party:starlark: target '@io_bazel//src/main/java/net/starlark/java/lib/json:json' is not visible from target '//third_party:starlark'. Check the visibility declaration of the former target if you think the dependency is legitimate
ERROR: /home/vertexwahn/dev/Piper/third_party/copybara/third_party/BUILD:166:13: in java_library rule //third_party:starlark: target '@io_bazel//src/main/java/net/starlark/java/syntax:syntax' is not visible from target '//third_party:starlark'. Check the visibility declaration of the former target if you think the dependency is legitimate
ERROR: /home/vertexwahn/dev/Piper/third_party/copybara/third_party/BUILD:166:13: Analysis of target '//third_party:starlark' failed
ERROR: Analysis of target '//java/com/google/copybara:copybara' failed; build aborted: 
INFO: Elapsed time: 4.945s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (96 packages loaded, 1441 targets configured)