bazelbuild / bazelbuild/bazelisk
Go Bazelisk Binary Does Not Respect "arch --arch arm64"
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Description
When using M1 Macs, if Rosetta is enabled, we need to prepend the command "arch --arch arm64" to force a launch of an arm64 process. The use case is to build a proper arm64 Bazel binary.
However, if we build Bazel itself using Bazelisk, we will get an improper binary that is built not for arm64 as shown by the file command:
file
Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
To get around this, we've had to use the Python wrapper. But because this is explicitly called out as legacy code, we'd like to not have to do this.
Hash: cf1205e
Reproduction steps
1) Build the Bazel repo with bazelisk
arch --arch arm64 bazelisk build //src:bazel
2) Validate the output using file
file bazel-bin/src/bazel
3) Make sure that the output has:
Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing the Bazelisk build and launch path used by `arch --arch arm64 bazelisk build //src:bazel`, then compare it with the legacy Python wrapper mentioned in the issue. Reproduce the command and inspect `bazel-bin/src/bazel` with `file`; done means it reports a Mach-O arm64 executable rather than x86_64.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100