is there a way to get more information on a dependency cycle? the error message I’m getting is:

Engine traceback:
  in select
  in pants.backend.go.build.run_go_build
  in pants.backend.go.build.build_target
Traceback (no traceback):
  <pants native internals>
Exception: Dependency graph contained a cycle:
  @rule(pants.backend.go.build.build_target) <-
  @rule(pants.backend.go.build.build_target) <-

which is not very helpful

It's a cycle with the rules, rather than the "dependencies" field

mm… can cherry pick the rust portion of https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/12539 over

@rule(pants.backend.go.build.build_target()) <- @rule(pants.backend.go.build.build_target()) @rule(pants.backend.go.build.build_target()) <- I assume I need to add a

debug_hint

to the relevant parameters?

yep

okay it is file targets:

@rule(pants.backend.go.build.build_target(cmd/casload/client.go)) <-
  @rule(pants.backend.go.build.build_target(cmd/casload/main.go))
  @rule(pants.backend.go.build.build_target(cmd/casload/client.go)) <-

so, two options: 1. don’t have inference emit file targets unless you’d like to compile at that level 2. compile the graph of CoarsenedTargets instead

my issue with CoarsenedTargets is I just want the non-file target but it gives me all of the file targets. I’d like an API that just opts me out of file targets.

are you currently emitting file Addresses from inference? or are they being introduced somewhere else?

I was using

DependenciesRequest

and file targets ended up in the result (

Addresses

)