latest bazel does not work
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Description
I just installed bazel and wanted to install ift-encoder, but I got this error:
ollimeier@9165ebd3-202f-46ce-b652-32d85ac2bfd9 ift-encoder % bazel build ...
ERROR: The project you're trying to build requires Bazel 8.5.1 (specified in /Users/ollimeier/Documents/hithub_data/ollimeier/ift-encoder/.bazelversion), but it wasn't found in /opt/homebrew/Cellar/bazel/9.0.1/libexec/bin.
Bazel binaries for all official releases can be downloaded from here:
https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases
You can download the required version directly using this command:
(cd "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/bazel/9.0.1/libexec/bin" && curl -fLO https://releases.bazel.build/8.5.1/release/bazel-8.5.1-darwin-arm64 && chmod +x bazel-8.5.1-darwin-arm64 && cd - )
I was able to install ift-encoder with the downgraded version of bazel, but I thought you might be interested into the information anyway.
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