Failing to build Boost components locally with Bazel build

Question

I am trying to build Boost library locally and want to use it as a local_repository in my own project. I am referring to this (https://github.com/nelhage/rules_boost) for help. I have a directory tree like this:

boost/         // root of the boost project
     |
     bazel/
     |    |
     |    boost.bzl  // contains "boost_library" function from https://github.com/nelhage/rules_boost/blob/master/boost/boost.bzl
     |    |
     |    BUILD      // empty
     boost/       // the original boost headers folder from original boost dist
     |
     lib/         // the original boost sources folder from original boost dist
     |
     BUILD
     |
     WORKSPACE

The BUILD file looks like this one:

https://github.com/nelhage/rules_boost/blob/master/BUILD.boost with properly loading boost.bzl

The WORKSPACE is just:

workspace( name = "boost" )

The issue:

Now I am trying to build individual components (bazel build //:). Some of the components (Boost.Container, Boost.Test) are failing to build for a similar reason (not finding header files).

bazel build //:container                                                1 ↵
INFO: Found 1 target...
ERROR: /home/spyder/codebase/boost/BUILD:103:1: C++ compilation of rule '//:container' failed: Process exited with status 1 [sandboxed].
libs/container/src/global_resource.cpp:12:51: fatal error: boost/container/pmr/memory_resource.hpp: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Use --strategy=CppCompile=standalone to disable sandboxing for the failing actions.
Target //:container failed to build
Use --verbose_failures to see the command lines of failed build steps.
INFO: Elapsed time: 0.519s, Critical Path: 0.18s


bazel build //:test                                                     1 ↵
INFO: Found 1 target...
ERROR: /home/spyder/codebase/boost/BUILD:581:1: C++ compilation of rule '//:test' failed: Process exited with status 1 [sandboxed].
libs/test/src/junit_log_formatter.cpp:11:51: fatal error: boost/test/impl/junit_log_formatter.ipp: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Use --strategy=CppCompile=standalone to disable sandboxing for the failing actions.
Target //:test failed to build
Use --verbose_failures to see the command lines of failed build steps.
INFO: Elapsed time: 1.027s, Critical Path: 0.82s

Can anyone guide me on fixing it ?

EDIT:

I also tried to query the expanded cc_library rule by bazel query --output=build //:container and got this

cc_library(
  name = "container",
  visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
  generator_name = "container",
  generator_function = "boost_library",
  generator_location = "/home/spyder/codebase/boost/BUILD:103",
  licenses = ["notice"],
  deps = ["//:config", "//:core", "//:intrusive", "//:move"],
  defines = [],
  includes = ["boost/container/"],
  copts = ["-Wno-unused-value"],
  srcs = ["//:libs/container/src/alloc_lib.c", "//:libs/container/src/dlmalloc.cpp", "//:libs/container/src/dlmalloc_2_8_6.c", "//:libs/container/src/dlmalloc_ext_2_8_6.c", "//:libs/container/src/global_resource.cpp", "//:libs/container/src/monotonic_buffer_resource.cpp", "//:libs/container/src/pool_resource.cpp", "//:libs/container/src/synchronized_pool_resource.cpp", "//:libs/container/src/unsynchronized_pool_resource.cpp"],
  hdrs = [ ....... , "//:boost/container/pmr/map.hpp", "//:boost/container/pmr/memory_resource.hpp", "//:boost/container/pmr/monotonic_buffer_resource.hpp", "//:boost/container/pmr/polymorphic_allocator.hpp", ........ ],
)

Very shockingly, the source file which is complaining (libs/container/src/global_resource.cpp) and the header that it is complaining about (boost/container/pmr/memory_resource.hpp) are both correctly included in the srcs and hdrs list.

Failing to build Boost components locally with Bazel build

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