We removed `bazel-toolchains` from the repository since dev-infra
provides the RBE platforms now (in a way where they are not reliant
on the Bazel version), so the comment in `.bazelversion` can be
removed.
PR Close#42760
Update to the latest version of bazel.
`4.0.0` introduced a breaking change on unnecessary backslashes and these
instance are corrected in this change.
PR Close#40579
This has a couple benefits:
- we now use a .bazelversion file rather than package.json to pin the version of bazel we want. This means even if you install bazel on your computer rather than via yarn, you'll still get a warning if your bazel version is wrong.
- you no longer end up downloading three copies of bazel due to bugs in both npm and yarn where they download all tarballs before checking the metadata to see which are usable on the local platform.
- bazelisk correctly handles the tools/bazel trick for wrapping functionality, which we want to use to instrument developer build latencies
PR Close#36078
Paul Gschwendtner
Joey Perrott
Alex Eagle