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Is there a list of tools that are assumed to be always in the PATH when a Bazel target runs a shell command?



This is relevant for creating isolated build environments. AFAIU (see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/50765#issuecomment-440009735) by default Bazel picks up tools from /bin and /usr/bin when in strict mode.



But what can ultimately be assumed about the minimal content of those? For example, I saw awk to be used liberally. But then git as well, which sounds border-line.



I imagine the exact set might correspond to whatever Google-internal Bazel expects to find in Google's build images bin directories. At least for BUILD rules open-sourced by Google.



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    Is there a list of tools that are assumed to be always in the PATH when a Bazel target runs a shell command?



    This is relevant for creating isolated build environments. AFAIU (see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/50765#issuecomment-440009735) by default Bazel picks up tools from /bin and /usr/bin when in strict mode.



    But what can ultimately be assumed about the minimal content of those? For example, I saw awk to be used liberally. But then git as well, which sounds border-line.



    I imagine the exact set might correspond to whatever Google-internal Bazel expects to find in Google's build images bin directories. At least for BUILD rules open-sourced by Google.



    Is there such a definitive list? Thank you.










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      Is there a list of tools that are assumed to be always in the PATH when a Bazel target runs a shell command?



      This is relevant for creating isolated build environments. AFAIU (see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/50765#issuecomment-440009735) by default Bazel picks up tools from /bin and /usr/bin when in strict mode.



      But what can ultimately be assumed about the minimal content of those? For example, I saw awk to be used liberally. But then git as well, which sounds border-line.



      I imagine the exact set might correspond to whatever Google-internal Bazel expects to find in Google's build images bin directories. At least for BUILD rules open-sourced by Google.



      Is there such a definitive list? Thank you.










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      Is there a list of tools that are assumed to be always in the PATH when a Bazel target runs a shell command?



      This is relevant for creating isolated build environments. AFAIU (see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/50765#issuecomment-440009735) by default Bazel picks up tools from /bin and /usr/bin when in strict mode.



      But what can ultimately be assumed about the minimal content of those? For example, I saw awk to be used liberally. But then git as well, which sounds border-line.



      I imagine the exact set might correspond to whatever Google-internal Bazel expects to find in Google's build images bin directories. At least for BUILD rules open-sourced by Google.



      Is there such a definitive list? Thank you.







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          As far as I can tell, your assessment of the tool usage is correct, and unfortunately I'm not aware of such a list.



          There should be one, and Bazel should treat the shell as a toolchain. Alas nobody is working on that at the moment. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5265.






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          As far as I can tell, your assessment of the tool usage is correct, and unfortunately I'm not aware of such a list.



          There should be one, and Bazel should treat the shell as a toolchain. Alas nobody is working on that at the moment. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5265.






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          As far as I can tell, your assessment of the tool usage is correct, and unfortunately I'm not aware of such a list.



          There should be one, and Bazel should treat the shell as a toolchain. Alas nobody is working on that at the moment. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5265.






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          As far as I can tell, your assessment of the tool usage is correct, and unfortunately I'm not aware of such a list.



          There should be one, and Bazel should treat the shell as a toolchain. Alas nobody is working on that at the moment. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5265.






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          As far as I can tell, your assessment of the tool usage is correct, and unfortunately I'm not aware of such a list.



          There should be one, and Bazel should treat the shell as a toolchain. Alas nobody is working on that at the moment. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5265.







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