Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates

🫧 Open on Bubbles How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect As powerful as Bazel is, sometimes it’s not featureful enough. When using this build system, it’s common practice to wrap it in a launcher script—and in fact, this is natively supported by Bazelisk , Bazel’s native dispatcher that stands for the bazel binary in the user’s PATH . Bazelisk will first download the version of Bazel requested by the project, and then, if tools/bazel exists, invoke it instead of the downlo