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While working on the auto completion of aspect, I wanted to build a binary such that I can invoke it with tab completion. I have not found a straight-forward way to do so.

After running bazel build //:aspect, there is a binary in bazel-bin/cmd/aspect/aspect_/aspect as expected. However, the binary is not functional:

$ aspect --help
Error: could not resolve the version '5.1.1-3-gb951e36' to an actual version number: Invalid version '5.1.1-3-gb951e36'

To work around this, I had to create a wrapper script that invokes aspect through bazel run:

#!/bin/bash

bazel run //:aspect -- $@

I'm sure there must be a better way with setting some flags, or have a special .bazelrc config. But I did not find it (without looking too far).

I think the "supported" way of doing this should be documented in the contribution guide

Thanks for the issue. I'll fix this workflow up asap.

Hmm. I'm not able to reproduce this locally off at HEAD.

$ bazel-bin/cmd/aspect/aspect_/aspect --version
aspect 5.1.4-7-g2d480a0
$ bazel-bin/cmd/aspect/aspect_/aspect --help
Aspect CLI is a better frontend for running bazel

I tried going back to a commit just past 5.1.1.

The error itself is coming from vendored Bazelisk code, https://github.com/aspect-build/aspect-cli/blob/8351b40ac6c626b16817a80aa7420536eb1d25a8/pkg/bazel/bazelisk.go#L130. However, I can't see how the stamped version of the binary could make it there. Could you please try to reproduce at HEAD?

Seem to still be the case for me:

$ ./bazel-bin/cmd/aspect/aspect_/aspect --version
Error: could not resolve the version '5.8.5-4-g7289b1d' to an actual version number: Invalid version '5.8.5-4-g7289b1d'