package names may not start with '/'

[hbf17517]

I am following the instructions in https://bazel.build/install/compile-source#build-bazel-using-bazel
to build bazel on Windows.
But I get the following error:

$ bazel build //src:bazel-dev
Extracting Bazel installation...
Starting local Bazel server (8.2.1) and connecting to it...
WARNING: Target pattern parsing failed.
ERROR: Skipping '/src:bazel-dev': invalid package name '/src': package names may not start with '/'
ERROR: invalid package name '/src': package names may not start with '/'

Why do I have to specify the target with triple '/' for it to work?

Thank you

[fmeum]

Which shell/command prompt are you using? Some of them automatically convert slash-separated paths to Windows style paths and vice versa and // is an escaped / in that case.

[hbf17517]

I am using git-bash and msys2, both are Unix-like terminals.