Bazel build fails on ppc64le error: jni_md.h: No such file or directory

[rashmi-ibm]

Description of the problem / feature request:

Bazel build fails on ppc64le error: jni_md.h

Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

  wget https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/download/3.3.0/bazel-3.3.0-dist.zip
  unzip bazel-3.3.0-dist.zip

  EXTRA_BAZEL_ARGS="--host_javabase=@local_jdk//:jdk" bash ./compile.sh

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

Rhel 7.6 on ppc64le, Rhel 8 on ppc64le

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

#10746

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

ERROR: /root/rashmi/bazel/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/syntax/BUILD:150:1: C++ compilation of rule '//src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/syntax:libcpu_profiler.so' failed (Exit 1): gcc failed: error executing command
(cd /tmp/bazel_M38Hj455/out/execroot/io_bazel &&
exec env -
PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.212.b04-0.el7_6.ppc64le/include/linux/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/root/go/bin:/root/rashmi/boringssl/build
PWD=/proc/self/cwd
/usr/bin/gcc -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -fstack-protector -Wall -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wno-free-nonheap-object -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g0 -O2 '-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1' -DNDEBUG -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections '-std=c++0x' -MD -MF bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/syntax/objs/libcpu_profiler.so/cpu_profiler_unimpl.pic.d '-frandom-seed=bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/syntax/objs/libcpu_profiler.so/cpu_profiler_unimpl.pic.o' -fPIC -iquote . -iquote bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin -iquote external/bazel_tools -iquote bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin/external/bazel_tools -isystem external/bazel_tools/tools/jdk/include -isystem bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin/external/bazel_tools/tools/jdk/include -fno-canonical-system-headers -Wno-builtin-macro-redefined '-D__DATE="redacted"' '-D__TIMESTAMP__="redacted"' '-D__TIME__="redacted"' -c src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/syntax/cpu_profiler_unimpl.cc -o bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/syntax/_objs/libcpu_profiler.so/cpu_profiler_unimpl.pic.o)
Execution platform: //:default_host_platform
In file included from src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/syntax/cpu_profiler_unimpl.cc:17:0:
bazel-out/ppc-opt/bin/external/bazel_tools/tools/jdk/include/jni.h:45:10: fatal error: jni_md.h: No such file or directory
#include "jni_md.h"
^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
Target //src:bazel_nojdk failed to build
INFO: Elapsed time: 41.118s, Critical Path: 12.09s
INFO: 262 processes: 262 local.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully

ERROR: Could not build Bazel

[rashmi-ibm]

Build steps with version 2.0.0 builds successfully:-
yum update -y
yum install -y java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel autoconf libtool curl gcc-c++ python3 wget unzip git zip

BAZEL_VERSION 2.0.0
 mkdir /bazel &&     cd /bazel   
curl -fSsL -O https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/download/$BAZEL_VERSION/bazel-$BAZEL_VERSION-dist.zip
unzip bazel-$BAZEL_VERSION-dist.zip
sed -i '/--action_env=PATH \\/a\  --host_javabase=@bazel_tools//tools/jdk:jdk \\' compile.sh
ln -sf /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python
python --version
bash ./compile.sh

Versio 2.2.0 and above fails with the error : jni_md.h: No such file or directory::

mkdir test
 cd test/
 BAZEL_VERSION=2.2.0
 mkdir bazel && cd bazel 
 curl -fSsL -O https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/download/$BAZEL_VERSION/bazel-$BAZEL_VERSION-dist.zip
 unzip bazel-$BAZEL_VERSION-dist.zip
 sed -i '/--action_env=PATH \\/a\  --host_javabase=@bazel_tools//tools/jdk:jdk \\' compile.sh
 bash ./compile.sh

[koenvervloesem]

It looks like this has been fixed in Bazel 3.4.0, released 4 hours ago.

[davido]

Duplicate of #11643.

[meisterT]

@rashmi-ibm can you confirm that this is fixed with Bazel 3.4.1

[rashmi-ibm]

Bazel 3.4.0 works fine on Power.

[meisterT]

Thanks for confirming!