Support binary tools/bazel wrappers #696
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To do this, recognize new tools/bazel.<OSNAME>-<ARCH> and tools/bazel.<ARCH> names for the wrapper, and favor those over tools/bazel if they are present.
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I pushed a new version of the change to (try to) fix the problems with the Windows tests... but now one of the Windows jobs fails with: which seems unrelated to my change given that it's coming from a dependency. (I'm not even sure why the Windows build would look into a file with |
fweikert
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Oct 9, 2025
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| If `tools/bazel` exists in your workspace root and is executable, Bazelisk will run this file, instead of the Bazel version it downloaded. | ||
| Bazelisk will try to run a Bazel wrapper from the `tools` directory if present, instead of the Bazel version it downloaded. When doing so, Bazelisk will set the environment variable `BAZEL_REAL` to the path of the downloaded Bazel binary. This can be useful, for example, if you have a wrapper script that ensures that environment variables are set to known good values. |
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This sounds as if BAZEL_REAL is only set when tools/bazel exists, which is not the case.
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To do this, recognize new
tools/bazel.<OSNAME>-<ARCH>andtools/bazel.<ARCH>names for the wrapper, and favor those overtools/bazelif they are present.