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| author |  Peter Laird <laird_peter@yahoo.com> | 2017-10-12 16:44:19 +0200 |
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| committer |  Marcel Hlopko <hlopko@google.com> | 2017-10-13 13:51:53 +0200 |
| commit | 4b16e02aabf08b154cb2258930e76a59a741206f (patch) | |
| tree | 1f55b6494ab3a6faad7f7620561dba6fb8e17c62 /site/docs/tutorial | |
| parent | faf2db22277bd0b074a0a8c5cd4533a735eff31a (diff) | |
Clarify the direction of visibility in the tutorial
The original text makes it sound like greeter target needs visibility to the runner target. It is the other way around.
Closes #3866.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 171958509
Diffstat (limited to 'site/docs/tutorial')
| -rw-r--r-- | site/docs/tutorial/java.md | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/site/docs/tutorial/java.md b/site/docs/tutorial/java.md index 0c5cafb5e8..e273776316 100644 --- a/site/docs/tutorial/java.md +++ b/site/docs/tutorial/java.md @@ -279,8 +279,8 @@ Take a look at the dependency graph:  -However, for the build to succeed, you must make the `runner` target in -`//src/main/java/com/example/cmdline/BUILD` explicitly visible to targets in +However, for the build to succeed, you must explicitly give the `runner` target in +`//src/main/java/com/example/cmdline/BUILD` visibility to targets in `//BUILD` using the `visibility` attribute. This is because by default targets are only visible to other targets in the same `BUILD` file. (Bazel uses target visibility to prevent issues such as libraries containing implementation details |