bazelbuild / bazelbuild/bazel

CppLink path-mapping support

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P3 team-Rules-CPP type: feature request
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Description

### Description of the feature request:

Currently CppLink does not support [path mapping](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/discussions/22658). This likely isn't as important as CppCompile to most folks, but if your dependency tree that is being transitioned has many binaries that are unaffected by the transition, it's a potentially large cost of duplicate building, duplicate pulling from cache, etc. It's likely that binaries actually affected by the transition won't be dedup'd, but those further down in the dep tree might benefit from this.

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### What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

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### Which operating system are you running Bazel on?

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### What is the output of `bazel info release`?

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### If `bazel info release` returns `development version` or `(@non-git)`, tell us how you built Bazel.

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### What's the output of `git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD` ?

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### Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

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Research direction

Start by reading the linked Bazel discussion and comparing the requested CppLink behavior with the existing CppCompile path-mapping support mentioned in the issue. Determine the affected linking actions and define tests showing that unaffected binaries avoid duplicate builds or cache downloads while transitioned binaries retain correct behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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