Missing symbols when building with --incompatible_autoload_externally=-@rules_java

[limdor]

Trying to do the migration for bazelbuild/bazel#23043 I found that it is not yet possible to build without that native java rules.

ERROR: /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/java/private/native.bzl:19:12: name 'java_common' is not defined (did you mean 'cc_common'?)
ERROR: Analysis of target '//dynamic_memory/proc_maps:proc_maps' failed; build aborted: Error loading '@@rules_java+//java:extensions.bzl' for module extensions, requested by @@bazel_tools//:MODULE.bazel:20:32: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/java/extensions.bzl:18:5: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/java/repositories.bzl:20:6: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/toolchains/local_java_repository.bzl:17:6: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/java/toolchains/java_runtime.bzl:16:6: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java++compatibility_proxy+compatibility_proxy/proxy.bzl:2:6: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/java/bazel/rules/bazel_java_binary_wrapper.bzl:26:6: compilation of module 'java/private/native.bzl' failed: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/java/extensions.bzl:18:5: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/java/repositories.bzl:20:6: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/toolchains/local_java_repository.bzl:17:6: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/java/toolchains/java_runtime.bzl:16:6: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java++compatibility_proxy+compatibility_proxy/proxy.bzl:2:6: at /home/limdor/.cache/bazel/_bazel_limdor/7847781caf1fd5388b007bf353d8df72/external/rules_java+/java/bazel/rules/bazel_java_binary_wrapper.bzl:26:6: compilation of module 'java/private/native.bzl' failed

For details and how to reproduce it see bazelbuild/bazel#23043 (comment)

I assume from

rules_java/java/private/native.bzl

Line 18 in 043d976

def get_internal_java_common():

that the error is because rules_java is not yet ready to be build with the incompatible flag due to not having everything in Starlark.

[hvadehra]

Yes, I don't think we're ready to disable autoloads for most of the rules repositories themselves. You could try using --incompatible_disable_autoloads_in_main_repo instead to migrate your own repository.

This was added in bazelbuild/bazel@91fbe5c (but I believe also backported to Bazel 8.2)