Clion plugin doesn't work with custom CROSSTOOL

I configured a custom CROSSTOOL for clang on ubuntu 18.04. I was able to build my workspace by setting --crosstool_top=//bazel/tools/cpp:toolchain --cpu=k8 --compiler=clang

and I added build --crosstool_top=//bazel/tools/cpp:toolchain --cpu=k8 --compiler=clang to .bazelrc, which works well in command line. But CLion fails to sync build file.

Got the following error “intellij_aspect/intellij_info_impl.bzl”, line 365, in collect_c_toolchain_info

cc_common.configure_features(cc_toolchain = cpp_toolchain, requ..., ...))

expected value of type ‘CcToolchainInfo’ for parameter ‘cc_toolchain’, in method call configure_features(ToolchainInfo cc_toolchain, list requested_features, list unsupported_features) of ‘cc_common’.

[speedskater]

I just stumbled across this issue with bazel 0.29 and the latest version of the clion bazel plugin using a custom c++ toolchain.

Thanks @kevin-nuro for pointing me in the right direction for a workaround.

A workaround is to define tags = ["no-ide"] on targets created with the cc_toolchain rule. Using this workaround the plugin picks up the CCToolchainInfo from your defined cc_toolchain_suite and everything works as expected.

[ghost]

CLion bazel plugin 2018.12.03.0.2 CLion 2018.2.7 bazel 0.21.0