$ cat > BUILD << EOF
java_binary(
name="main",
srcs=["Main.java"],
main_class='com.example.Main'
)
EOF

$ cat > Main.java << EOF
package com.example;

public class Main {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		new Exception();
	}
}
EOF

$ touch WORKSPACE
$ bazel build --javacopt="-XepPatchChecks:DeadException -XepPatchLocation:`pwd`" //:main
INFO: Analysed target //:main (1 packages loaded).
INFO: Found 1 target...
ERROR: /Users/vmax/work/AppStory/tmptmp/BUILD:1:1: Building main.jar (1 source file) failed (Exit 1)
Main.java:5: error: [DeadException] Exception created but not thrown
		new Exception();
		^
    (see http://errorprone.info/bugpattern/DeadException)
  Did you mean 'throw new Exception();'?
Target //:main failed to build
Use --verbose_failures to see the command lines of failed build steps.
INFO: Elapsed time: 0.265s, Critical Path: 0.08s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully

$ ls -1 | grep -v bazel-
BUILD
Main.java
WORKSPACE

# I expect `error-prone.patch` to be there