Compilation Issue: crosses boundary of subpackage

[joerg84]

There seems to be an issue with the TensorFlow dependency which prevents me from compiling ml-metadata. It seems to be similar to kubeflow/pipelines#1288 which hopefully fixed with the next TF release.
Is there a way I can avoid that issue in the meantime?

$ bazel run -c opt --define grpc_no_ares=true ml_metadata:build_pip_package
Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it...
INFO: An error occurred during the fetch of repository 'io_bazel_rules_closure'
INFO: Call stack for the definition of repository 'io_bazel_rules_closure':
 - /Users/jarango/ml-metadata/WORKSPACE:25:1
ERROR: error loading package '': in /Users/jarango/ml-metadata/ml_metadata/workspace.bzl: in /private/var/tmp/_bazel_jarango/3250bda47e0c37e69ea58b486f066546/external/org_tensorflow/tensorflow/workspace.bzl: Label '@org_tensorflow//third_party:nccl/nccl_configure.bzl' crosses boundary of subpackage '@org_tensorflow//third_party/nccl' (perhaps you meant to put the colon here: '@org_tensorflow//third_party/nccl:nccl_configure.bzl'?)
ERROR: error loading package '': in /Users/jarango/ml-metadata/ml_metadata/workspace.bzl: in /private/var/tmp/_bazel_jarango/3250bda47e0c37e69ea58b486f066546/external/org_tensorflow/tensorflow/workspace.bzl: Label '@org_tensorflow//third_party:nccl/nccl_configure.bzl' crosses boundary of subpackage '@org_tensorflow//third_party/nccl' (perhaps you meant to put the colon here: '@org_tensorflow//third_party/nccl:nccl_configure.bzl'?)
INFO: Elapsed time: 19.671s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)

$ bazel version
Build label: 0.25.2
Build target: bazel-out/darwin-opt/bin/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/BazelServer_deploy.jar
Build time: Fri May 10 20:50:40 2019 (1557521440)
Build timestamp: 1557521440
Build timestamp as int: 1557521440

$ clang --version
Apple LLVM version 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.6.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin```

[hughmiao]

It is a bazel 0.25 issue, you can downgrade it to 0.18~0.24.1 which works well on mac.

If bazel 0.25 is preferred, you can change the WORKSPACE to use tensorflow 0.14.0-rc0 which contains the fixes:
tensorflow/tensorflow@494d2cc
tensorflow/tensorflow@2243bd6

[hughmiao]

This issue should be fixed in af17778. Close it for now. Please reopen if needed.

[joerg84]

Confirmed, thanks! @hughmiao