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layout: documentation
title: Build Encyclopedia
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<h1>Bazel BUILD Encyclopedia of Functions</h1>
<h2>Contents</h2>

<h3>Concepts and terminology</h3>

<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="common-definitions.html">Common definitions</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="common-definitions.html#sh-tokenization">Bourne shell tokenization</a></li>
      <li><a href="common-definitions.html#label-expansion">Label expansion</a></li>
      <li><a href="common-definitions.html#common-attributes">Common attributes</a></li>
      <li><a href="common-definitions.html#common-attributes-tests">Common attributes for tests</a></li>
      <li><a href="common-definitions.html#common-attributes-binaries">Common attributes for binaries</a></li>
      <li><a href="common-definitions.html#configurable-attributes">Configurable attributes</a></li>
      <li><a href="common-definitions.html#implicit-outputs">Implicit output targets</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="make-variables.html">"Make" variables</a>
    <ul class="be-toc">
      <li><a href="make-variables.html#make-var-substitution">"Make" variable substitution</a></li>
      <li><a href="make-variables.html#predefined_variables">Predefined variables</a></li>

    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="predefined-python-variables.html">Predefined Python Variables</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Functions</h3>

<ul class="be-toc">
  <li><a href="functions.html#load">load</a></li>

  <li><a href="functions.html#package">package</a></li>
  <li><a href="functions.html#package_group">package_group</a></li>

  <li><a href="functions.html#licenses">licenses</a></li>
  <li><a href="functions.html#exports_files">exports_files</a></li>
  <li><a href="functions.html#glob">glob</a></li>
  <li><a href="functions.html#select">select</a></li>
  <li><a href="functions.html#workspace">workspace</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Rules</h3>

<h4>Language-specific Rules</h4>

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<table class="table table-condensed table-striped" summary="Table of rules sorted by language">
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  <thead>
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      <th>Language</th>
      <th>Binary rules</th>
      <th>Library rules</th>
      <th>Test rules</th>
      <th>Other rules</th>
      <th></th>
    </tr>
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<h4>Rules that do not apply to a specific programming language</h4>

<table class="table table-condensed table-striped" summary="Table of rules not specific to a programming language">
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