bazel-0.4.4 android dep. error back for tensorflow

[interestingdev]

Hi,
I can see you rolled back the commit before and made below issue gone. But now it's back with latest release 0.4.4. Please help provide solution, thanks.

When I run .configure under syntaxnet/tensorflow/, following error appears:

ERROR: /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/18eb17b8355c7d22a446de6d75221628/external/bazel_tools/src/tools/android/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/dexer/BUILD:3:1: no such target '//external:android/dx_jar_import': target 'android/dx_jar_import' not declared in package 'external' defined by /root/development/models/syntaxnet/tensorflow/WORKSPACE and referenced by '@bazel_tools//src/tools/android/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/dexer:dexer'.
ERROR: /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/18eb17b8355c7d22a446de6d75221628/external/bazel_tools/src/tools/android/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/dexer/BUILD:3:1: no such target '//external:android/dx_jar_import': target 'android/dx_jar_import' not declared in package 'external' defined by /root/development/models/syntaxnet/tensorflow/WORKSPACE and referenced by '@bazel_tools//src/tools/android/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/dexer:dexer'.
ERROR: Evaluation of query "deps(//tensorflow/...)" failed: errors were encountered while computing transitive closure.
root@ubuntu-512mb-vpn-live-snapshot-512mb-nyc3-01:/development/models/syntaxnet/tensorflow# vim root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/18eb17b8355c7d22a446de6d75221628/external/bazel_tools/src/tools/android/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/dexer/BUILD
root@ubuntu-512mb-vpn-live-snapshot-512mb-nyc3-01:/development/models/syntaxnet/tensorflow# vim /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/18eb17b8355c7d22a446de6d75221628/external/bazel_tools/src/tools/android/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/dexer/BUILD

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Environment info

ubuntu

• Bazel version (output of bazel info release):
  0.4.4

Java:
java version "1.8.0_121"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode)

[meteorcloudy]

@aj-michael Any idea how to fix this?

[aj-michael]

Hmmm, I cleaned this up in the tensorflow repo in tensorflow/tensorflow#6225.

@interestingdev can you clarify as to what git repository you are building (is it https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow or something else?) and what commit you are at (run git rev-parse HEAD)

[aj-michael]

Ok, the problem is that https://github.com/tensorflow/models has https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow as a submodule, but is using a commit which does not include my fix.

The solution is for the tensorflow/models project to update their submodule. A temporary fix would be git submodule update --remote -f syntaxnet/tensorflow which will update their submodule in your local repository to HEAD. (Although I know nothing about tensorflow's release and versioning process so I don't know if that would cause other problems)

[interestingdev]

Thanks for your response, now I'm taking bazel-0.4.3 to have tensorflow(syntaxnet) build passed.

[aj-michael]

I'm going to close this because the README.md for models/syntaxnet explicitly says to use bazel 0.4.3: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/syntaxnet/README.md. Of course this is less than ideal, their repo should not be breaking on bazel minor version updates, but this particular problem is probably worth filing an issue to their repo about updating their tensorflow version.

[jsamson008]

Can you please highlight this in the README file. Red text would be best. I've had dozens of people ask about this problem. And with reasonably good Google foo.

[kchodorow]

Could you report this on the syntaxnet repo?