I have access to a large IBM Power8 machine (running Ubuntu), and would like to build Bazel on it. However, when I try to do it as their installation instructions suggest, I get:
me@machine:~/bazel-0.1.5$ ./compile.sh
INFO: You can skip this first step by providing a path to the bazel binary as second argument:
INFO: ./compile.sh compile /path/to/bazel
The version of protobuf you're using must match the protobuf runtime that is checked in. In this case, that's protobuf-java-3.0.0-beta-1.jar [1], so you have to use the compiler version 3.0.0-beta-1.
(I work on Bazel.)
[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/tree/master/third_party/protobuf