Description of the problem / feature request:

rules_cc is being relied upon by rules_go, but there is published release archive yet of rules_cc. This makes building offline much more difficult due to using git_archive.

Background:

• rules_go using git_repository
• issue field with rules_go -- rules_cc are a hard requirement
• reason for hard requirement

Feature requests: what underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

Using distdir requires using http_archive.

Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

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What operating system are you running Bazel on?

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What's the output of bazel info release?

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If bazel info release returns "development version" or "(@Non-Git)", tell us how you built Bazel.

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What version of rules_cc do you use? Can you paste the workspace rule used to fetch rules_cc? What other relevant dependencies does your project have?

See rules_go reference. The desire is to use a published version.

What Bazel options do you use to trigger the issue? What C++ toolchain do you use?

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Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

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Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

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