React: "legalComments": "linked" error

[gkiely]

When building an application that contains React using "legalComments": "linked" I get the following error.
"Cannot transform with linked or external legal comments".

As far as I can tell there are no linked/external legal comments. Is this something that can be fixed or is it intended and I am reading this incorrectly?

Example repo:
https://github.com/gkiely/vite-react-starter

Steps:

> Uncomment esbuild section in vite.config.ts, line 65-67
npm i
npm run build

[evanw]

This is an error because you are not supposed to do this. Passing linked tells esbuild to generate an additional .LEGAL.txt output file, but transform mode (unlike build mode) returns a string and doesn't support returning additional generated files. So linked is incompatible with transform mode.

[gkiely]

Understood, I take it this won't be supported and will close the issue.

[danielo515]

Why? Why can not the legal comments be processed and generated in a separate pipeline while the transform gets the code with the comments removed?