Update getting started instructions with .bazelrc strategy

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MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=90418845

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/compile.sh b/compile.sh
index f7718ac6f4..39de894aa5 100755
--- a/compile.sh
+++ b/compile.sh
@@ -118,11 +118,6 @@ EOF
   esac
 }
 
-# Create symlinks so we can use tools and examples from the base_workspace.
-rm -f base_workspace/tools && ln -s "$(pwd)/tools" base_workspace/tools
-rm -f base_workspace/third_party && ln -s "$(pwd)/third_party" base_workspace/third_party
-rm -f base_workspace/examples && ln -s "$(pwd)/examples" base_workspace/examples
-
 case "${PLATFORM}" in
 linux)
   # Sorry, no static linking on linux for now.
@@ -477,4 +472,18 @@ create_deploy_jar "precomp_xcodegen_deploy" "com.google.devtools.build.xcode.xco
 
 cp -f output/actoolzip/precomp_actoolzip_deploy.jar output/ibtoolzip/precomp_ibtoolzip_deploy.jar output/momczip/precomp_momczip_deploy.jar output/bundlemerge/precomp_bundlemerge_deploy.jar output/plmerge/precomp_plmerge_deploy.jar output/xcodegen/precomp_xcodegen_deploy.jar tools/objc/
 
+# Create a bazelrc file with this directory in the package path.
+package_path="build --package_path %workspace%:$(pwd)"
+if [ ! -f $HOME/.bazelrc ]; then
+  log "Creating a .bazelrc pointing to this directory"
+  cat > $HOME/.bazelrc <<EOF
+$package_path
+EOF
+else
+  warning="You already have a .bazelrc. please modify it to add $(pwd) "
+  warning="$warning to your build package path."
+  old_line=$(fgrep "build --package_path " ~/.bazelrc) || true
+  [[ $package_path != $old_line ]] && log "$warning"
+fi
+
 log "Build successful! Binary is here: ${PWD}/output/bazel"