bazel Failed to create temporary file

Question

I have download the git repo containing the c++ tutorial for bazel and I am trying to compile the examples. When performing the command bazel build //main:hello-world, I get the following error:

ccache: error: Failed to create temporary file for /home/username/.ccache/tmp/tmp.cpp_stderr: Read-only file system

Thus I tried several actions: sudo bazel, change permission to /.ccache/tmp/ folder but none has worked. How can I get ride of this error ?

I work on fedora27.

Does this answer your question? [How to get Bazel, ccache, and sandboxing to work together (ccache read only filesystem)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52370202/how-to-get-bazel-ccache-and-sandboxing-to-work-together-ccache-read-only-file) — user7610, Sep 18 '20 at 12:52
Why do you try to use ccache and Bazel at the same time? You'll use redundant caches, won't you? — hagello, Feb 05 '21 at 16:07

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '18 at 23:45

The reason for this error is that ccache is used and requires write access ~/.ccache. See in Ondrej's comment to: Bazel building C++ sample with ccache fails

Using --sandbox_writable_path ~/.ccache fixes the issue without disabling the sandbox feature.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '18 at 10:41

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Solved using the option --strategy=CppCompile=standalone :

bazel build //main:hello-world --strategy=CppCompile=standalone

answered Mar 09 '18 at 10:41

modkin

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Bear in mind that this change will disable sand-boxing, which might not be what you actually want... – Sean Burton Mar 09 '18 at 12:43

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