Bazel rules and filegroup inconsistency - build

Question

I created a filegroup rule to have in one label all the .proto files of a library.
filegroup(
name = "protos_all_src",
srcs = glob(
["**/*.proto"],
exclude = [
"protobuf/worker.proto",
"protobuf/worker_service.proto",
"protobuf/master.proto",
"protobuf/master_service.proto",
],
)
)
tf_proto_library(
name = "protos_all",
srcs = ":protos_all_src",
),
...
)
but strangely with this format this other rule fails:
cc_library(
name = "lib_internal",
srcs = glob(
[
"lib/**/*.h",
"lib/**/*.cc",
"platform/*.h",
"platform/*.cc",
] + tf_additional_lib_srcs(),
exclude = [
"**/*test*",
"platform/**/cuda.h",
"platform/**/stream_executor.h",
],
),
hdrs = [
"lib/core/blocking_counter.h",
"lib/core/refcount.h",
"lib/gtl/edit_distance.h",
"lib/gtl/int_type.h",
"lib/gtl/iterator_range.h",
"lib/gtl/manual_constructor.h",
"lib/gtl/top_n.h",
"lib/io/iterator.h",
"lib/io/match.h",
"lib/jpeg/jpeg_handle.h",
"lib/png/png_io.h",
"lib/random/random.h",
"lib/random/random_distributions.h",
"lib/random/weighted_picker.h",
"lib/strings/ordered_code.h",
"lib/strings/proto_text_util.h",
"lib/strings/regexp.h",
"lib/strings/scanner.h",
"lib/wav/wav_io.h",
"platform/demangle.h",
"platform/denormal.h",
"platform/platform.h",
"platform/tensor_coding.h",
"platform/tracing.h",
],
copts = tf_copts(),
linkopts = ["-ldl"],
deps = [
":protos_all_cc",
"//tensorflow/core/platform/default/build_config:platformlib",
"//third_party/eigen3",
],
)
note the protos_all_cc rule as a dep.
if I revert back to
tf_proto_library(
name = "protos_all",
srcs = glob(
["**/*.proto"],
exclude = [
"protobuf/worker.proto",
"protobuf/worker_service.proto",
"protobuf/master.proto",
"protobuf/master_service.proto",
],
),
everything works fine.
I would expect that the first and the second format would be completely equal. What I am missing ?
EDIT:
The tf_proto_library is defined here:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/core/platform/default/build_config.bzl#L26
and the cc_proto_library is defined here:
https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/protobuf.bzl#L109
bazel version:
Build label: 0.2.3-homebrew
Build target: bazel-out/local-fastbuild/bin/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/BazelServer_deploy.jar
Build time: Tue May 17 15:07:52 2016 (1463497672)
Build timestamp: 1463497672
Build timestamp as int: 1463497672

Answer 1

Could you paste your actual code and the error message you're getting? It looks like there are several problems and I'm not sure which are copy-paste errors and which are code.
I'd guess the issue you're having is that you cannot list files (nor filegroups) as deps in a cc_library rule, and ":protos_all_cc" is a filegroup. deps must be other cc_libraries (it's "things this rule should link together"). But it's very hard to tell with out the error message nor definition of protos_all_cc.

Answer 2

The srcs attribute should be a list, so your definition of protos_all should be
tf_proto_library(
name = "protos_all",
srcs = [":protos_all_src"], # note the list here
...
)
Maybe this is just a typo in the question, and the real problem is something else?
I get weird Permission denied problems when I try your filegroup approach.