build: do not create bazel convenience symlinks

PiperOrigin-RevId: 607751773

.bazelrc

@@ -8,4 +8,9 @@ build --repo_env=BAZEL_CXXOPTS="-std=c++14"
 # This is to avoid JVM SIGBUS crashes on highly parallel builds,
 # see https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/3236 for more details
 build --enable_platform_specific_config
-build:linux --sandbox_tmpfs_path=/tmp
+build:linux --sandbox_tmpfs_path=/tmp
+
+# Do not create bazel-* symlinks in the workspace directory
+build:linux --experimental_convenience_symlinks=ignore
+test:linux --experimental_convenience_symlinks=ignore
+run:linux --experimental_convenience_symlinks=ignore

.github/workflows/diregapic.yaml

@@ -22,18 +22,18 @@ jobs:
     - name: Regenerate API definitions
       run: |
         git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/googleapis/googleapis
-        bazelisk build //google/cloud/compute/v1:compute_gen
+        bazelisk build --experimental_convenience_symlinks=normal //google/cloud/compute/v1:compute_gen
         cp bazel-bin/google/cloud/compute/v1/compute_gen.proto google/cloud/compute/v1/compute.proto
-        bazelisk build //google/cloud/compute/v1:compute_grpc_service_config_gen
+        bazelisk build --experimental_convenience_symlinks=normal //google/cloud/compute/v1:compute_grpc_service_config_gen
         cp bazel-bin/google/cloud/compute/v1/compute_grpc_service_config_gen.json google/cloud/compute/v1/compute_grpc_service_config.json
-        bazelisk build //google/cloud/compute/v1:compute_gapic_gen
+        bazelisk build --experimental_convenience_symlinks=normal //google/cloud/compute/v1:compute_gapic_gen
         cp bazel-bin/google/cloud/compute/v1/compute_gapic_gen.yaml google/cloud/compute/v1/compute_gapic.yaml
         echo api_changes=$(git diff-index --shortstat HEAD) >> $GITHUB_ENV
     - name: Build GAPIC clients
       if: contains(env.api_changes, 'file')
       run: |
-        bazelisk build //google/cloud/compute/v1/...
-        bazelisk build //google/cloud/compute/v1/...
+        bazelisk build --experimental_convenience_symlinks=normal //google/cloud/compute/v1/...
+        bazelisk build --experimental_convenience_symlinks=normal //google/cloud/compute/v1/...
     - name: Create PR
       uses: googleapis/code-suggester@v2
       env: