Request improvement for "target does not provide the DeclaredToolchainInfo provider" error message.
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### Description of the problem / feature request:
From discussion here:
https://groups.google.com/g/bazel-discuss/c/Q5onIjX2Sjo
As a part of my adventures in Toolchain land, I took the bazel clang toolchain tutorial and modified for my own needs. Unfortunately, I'm now running into an error message of:
ERROR: While resolving toolchains for target //thing/to:build: invalid registered toolchain '//tools/build/product-build:my_toolchain': target does not provide the DeclaredToolchainInfo provider.
This error message provides little guidance about what is missing. If my supposition below is correct, detecting this situation and providing a suggestion such as "Did you pass in a toolchain rather than toolchain_suite?" might help other users.
In my case, I believe that the error was caused by passing in a cc_toolchain rather than cc_toolchain_suite to register_toolchain()
### Feature requests: what underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
I am attempting to add a specific pre-compiled instance of a cross-compiler to my environment setup so that I can build cc_library and cc_binary targets concurrently for the host as well as target platforms as outlined in BUILD files.
### Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.
Passing in a cc_toolchain rather than cc_toolchain_suite to register_toolchain() should cause the error message.
### What operating system are you running Bazel on?
"Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS"
### What's the output of `bazel info release`?
release 4.1.0
### If `bazel info release` returns "development version" or "(@non-git)", tell us how you built Bazel.
N/A
### What's the output of `git remote get-url origin ; git rev-parse master ; git rev-parse HEAD` ?
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
### Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
A few people asking similar questions, but no useful found.
### Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
Nothing at this time.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the error with a cc_toolchain passed to register_toolchain(), then trace how Bazel validates the registered target and reports the missing DeclaredToolchainInfo provider. Done means the diagnostic explains the likely toolchain-versus-toolchain_suite mistake and has coverage for this reproduction.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100