From 23ba7d40efa8d24ef4a39464762327b988c65cbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Sanderson <32687193+dws@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:58:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] drop rules_foreign_cc as a dependency

It does not appear that this repo makes any use of rules_foreign_cc,
so we here remove it.
---
 bazel/extra_deps.bzl | 2 --
 bazel/repository.bzl | 9 ---------
 2 files changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bazel/extra_deps.bzl b/bazel/extra_deps.bzl
index f68bc0f19e..3a0148b87b 100644
--- a/bazel/extra_deps.bzl
+++ b/bazel/extra_deps.bzl
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@
 
 load("@bazel_skylib//:workspace.bzl", "bazel_skylib_workspace")
 load("@com_github_jupp0r_prometheus_cpp//bazel:repositories.bzl", "prometheus_cpp_repositories")
-load("@rules_foreign_cc//foreign_cc:repositories.bzl", "rules_foreign_cc_dependencies")
 
 def opentelemetry_extra_deps():
     prometheus_cpp_repositories()
     bazel_skylib_workspace()
-    rules_foreign_cc_dependencies()
diff --git a/bazel/repository.bzl b/bazel/repository.bzl
index bea604cbba..0c4b15e091 100644
--- a/bazel/repository.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repository.bzl
@@ -141,15 +141,6 @@ def opentelemetry_cpp_deps():
         ],
     )
 
-    # rules foreign cc
-    maybe(
-        http_archive,
-        name = "rules_foreign_cc",
-        sha256 = "69023642d5781c68911beda769f91fcbc8ca48711db935a75da7f6536b65047f",
-        strip_prefix = "rules_foreign_cc-0.6.0",
-        url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_foreign_cc/archive/0.6.0.tar.gz",
-    )
-
     # bazel skylib
     maybe(
         http_archive,