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View on GitHubMake Bazel clearly communicate issues with XCode install
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#25,728 opened on Mar 28, 2025
P2help wantedteam-OSStype: bugz-team-Apple
Description
I updated the OS but did not update XCode. Bazel was failing with the most cryptic error (see below).
Please make Bazel messaging more helpful, possibly suggesting the user to check XCode install and do bazel clean --expunge
Description of the bug:
Unable to build my branch on my local macOS environment. This branch builds on CI, including Mac.
FATAL: bazel crashed due to an internal error. Printing stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unrecoverable error while evaluating node 'ActionLookupData0{actionLookupKey=ConfiguredTargetKey{label=//test/core/event_engine:common_closures_test_TEST_LIBRARY, config=BuildConfigurationKey[e7d0355b3d90789b06a9207238e0040e8b8404e05a204aa41ab02c9d9ba36c03]}, actionIndex=0}' (requested by nodes 'TargetCompletionKey{topLevelArtifactContext=com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis.TopLevelArtifactContext@90904c3b, actionLookupKey=ConfiguredTargetKey{label=//test/core/event_engine:common_closures_test_TEST_LIBRARY, config=BuildConfigurationKey[e7d0355b3d90789b06a9207238e0040e8b8404e05a204aa41ab02c9d9ba36c03]}, willTest=false}', 'ActionLookupData1{actionLookupKey=ConfiguredTargetKey{label=//test/core/event_engine:common_closures_test_TEST_LIBRARY, config=BuildConfigurationKey[e7d0355b3d90789b06a9207238e0040e8b8404e05a204aa41ab02c9d9ba36c03]}, actionIndex=1}')
at com.google.devtools.build.skyframe.AbstractParallelEvaluator$Evaluate.run(AbstractParallelEvaluator.java:547)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.concurrent.AbstractQueueVisitor$WrappedRunnable.run(AbstractQueueVisitor.java:435)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask$RunnableExecuteAction.exec(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask.doExec(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.topLevelExec(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.scan(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.apple.DottedVersion$InvalidDottedVersionException: Dotted version components must all start with the form \d+([a-z0-9]*?)?(\d+)? but got 'None'
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.apple.DottedVersion.fromStringUnchecked(DottedVersion.java:181)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.local.XcodeLocalEnvProvider.rewriteLocalEnv(XcodeLocalEnvProvider.java:95)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.sandbox.DarwinSandboxedSpawnRunner.prepareSpawn(DarwinSandboxedSpawnRunner.java:219)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.sandbox.AbstractSandboxSpawnRunner.exec(AbstractSandboxSpawnRunner.java:112)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.sandbox.SandboxModule$SandboxFallbackSpawnRunner.exec(SandboxModule.java:479)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.AbstractSpawnStrategy.exec(AbstractSpawnStrategy.java:158)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.AbstractSpawnStrategy.exec(AbstractSpawnStrategy.java:118)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.SpawnStrategyResolver.exec(SpawnStrategyResolver.java:45)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.cpp.CppCompileAction.execute(CppCompileAction.java:1395)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor$ActionRunner.executeAction(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:1170)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor$ActionRunner.run(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:1075)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionState.runStateMachine(ActionExecutionState.java:166)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionState.getResultOrDependOnFuture(ActionExecutionState.java:95)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor.executeAction(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:559)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionFunction.checkCacheAndExecuteIfNeeded(ActionExecutionFunction.java:928)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionFunction.computeInternal(ActionExecutionFunction.java:375)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionFunction.compute(ActionExecutionFunction.java:216)
at com.google.devtools.build.skyframe.AbstractParallelEvaluator$Evaluate.run(AbstractParallelEvaluator.java:467)
... 7 more
Caused by: com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.apple.DottedVersion$InvalidDottedVersionException: Dotted version components must all start with the form \d+([a-z0-9]*?)?(\d+)? but got 'None'
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.apple.DottedVersion.fromString(DottedVersion.java:203)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.apple.DottedVersion.fromStringUnchecked(DottedVersion.java:179)
... 24 more
Which category does this issue belong to?
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What's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.
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Which operating system are you running Bazel on?
macOS 15.3.2 (24D81)
What is the output of bazel info release?
release 8.0.1
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 ?
If this is a regression, please try to identify the Bazel commit where the bug was introduced with bazelisk --bisect.
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Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
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Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
$ which c++
/usr/bin/c++
$ c++ --version
Apple clang version 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)
Target: arm64-apple-darwin24.3.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin