Failure builing on ppc64le: Executing genrule filter_netty_dynamic_libs

[clnperez]

Description of the problem / feature request:

I can no longer build bazel on Power. I'm trying to use the dist bundle and building version 0.28.1. I'm not sure what this zip error is all about:
zip error: Nothing to do! (bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin/third_party/netty_tcnative/netty-tcnative-filtered.jar)

1,242 / 1,750][Prepa] ...//:google_bytestream_bytestream_java_grpc_srcs 
SUBCOMMAND:  //third_party:filter_netty_dynamic_libs [action 'Executing genrule //third_party:filter_netty_dynamic_libs'] 
 (cd /tmp/bazel_xA2x7yX3/out/execroot/io_bazel && \ 
    exec env - \                                                                                                                                                                                    
    PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin \                                                                                                                           
  /bin/bash -c 'source external/bazel_tools/tools/genrule/genrule-setup.sh; cp third_party/netty_tcnative/netty-tcnative-boringssl-static-2.0.24.Final.jar bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin/third_party/netty_tcnative/netty-tcnative-filtered.jar && zip -qd bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin/third_party/netty_tcnative/netty-tcnative-filtered.jar *.bogusextension')                                                  
[1,243 / 1,750] [Prepa] //third_party:filter_netty_dynamic_libs                                                                                                                        
ERROR:/bazel/third_party/BUILD:535:1: Executing genrule //third_party:filter_netty_dynamic_libs failed (Exit 12)
[1,244 / 1,750] checking cached actions
[1,244 / 1,750]  checking cached actions
zip error: Nothing to do! (bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin/third_party/netty_tcnative/netty-tcnative-filtered.jar)    Target //src:bazel_nojdk failed to build                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                  
ERROR: Could not build Bazel
The command '/bin/sh -c curl -fSL -o bazel-${BAZEL_RELEASE}-dist.zip https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/download/${BAZEL_RELEASE}/bazel-${BAZEL_RELEASE}-dist.zip &&     unzip -q bazel-$BAZEL_RELEASE-dist.zip &&     EXTRA_BAZEL_ARGS="--sandbox_debug -s --verbose_failures --host_javabase=@local_jdk//:jdk --copt=-Wno-unused-result --cxxopt=-Wno-unused-result" ./compile.sh &&     rm bazel-$BAZEL_RELEASE-dist.zip &&     mv output/bazel /usr/local/bin/. &&     cd / &&     rm -rf /bazel' 
returned a non-zero code: 1

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

I'm using this dockerfile:
https://github.com/clnperez/dockerfiles/blob/master/bazel/Dockerfile.bionic.gcc.dist
(fwiw, I've been building bazel in a container for a year maybe)

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

ubuntu bionic

[philwo]

From the output I don't see what's causing the failure. Unfortunately I don't currently have a PowerPC machine to debug this, but when I get one, I'll try to reproduce.

[clnperez]

@philwo you can request one here: https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/request_hosting/
You can use me (Christy Norman) as your advocate, choose whatever distro you want (I'd recommend Ubuntu as you can apt install docker there for a recent version), and choose to have the lab create the instance/node for you.

[clnperez]

actually -- it seems to just be an issue with the default here: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/0.28.1/third_party/BUILD#L528-L530

my experiment:

christy@christy-t480 zipdeletetest> zip test.zip *
  adding: a (stored 0%)
  adding: a.ext (stored 0%)
  adding: b (stored 0%)
  adding: b.ext (stored 0%)
  adding: c.delete (stored 0%)
christy@christy-t480 zipdeletetest> zip -d test.zip "*.bogus"
        zip warning: name not matched: *.bogus

zip error: Nothing to do! (test.zip)
christy@christy-t480 zipdeletetest> zip -d test.zip "*.delete"
deleting: c.delete

[clnperez]

submitted #9346 to work around for power

[clnperez]

closing as that fix was merged 🎉

[clnperez]

j/k. half-merged. reopening.