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runfiles

A container of information regarding a set of files required at runtime execution. This object should be passed via DefaultInfo in order to tell the build system about the runfiles needed by the outputs produced by the rule.

See runfiles guide for details.

empty_filenames

depset runfiles.empty_filenames

Returns names of empty files to create.

files

depset runfiles.files

Returns the set of runfiles as files.

merge

runfiles runfiles.merge(other)

Returns a new runfiles object that includes all the contents of this one and the argument.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
other	runfiles The runfiles object to merge into this.

root_symlinks

depset runfiles.root_symlinks

Returns the set of root symlinks.

symlinks

depset runfiles.symlinks

Returns the set of symlinks.