syntaxnet ./configure error

Question

I was trying to using syntaxnet and I have finished most of processes. Upgrade bazel version to 0.43 in case of errors (Ubuntu 16.04 Ver, Anaconda python 2.7). However, I am having a troubles with ./configure part. I am reading the official instruction via tensorflow github.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/tensorflow/models.git
cd models/syntaxnet/tensorflow
**./configure**
cd ..
bazel test syntaxnet/... util/utf8/...
# On Mac, run the following:
bazel test --linkopt=-headerpad_max_install_names \
  syntaxnet/... util/utf8/...

Following logs will help you to understand what’s going on my machine. Thanks for the advice

Please specify the location of python. [Default is /home/ryan/anaconda2/bin/python]: 
Do you wish to build TensorFlow with Google Cloud Platform support? [y/N] n
No Google Cloud Platform support will be enabled for TensorFlow
Do you wish to build TensorFlow with Hadoop File System support? [y/N] n
No Hadoop File System support will be enabled for TensorFlow
Found possible Python library paths:
  /home/ryan
  /home/ryan/pynaoqi-python2.7
  /home/ryan/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Please input the desired Python library path to use.  Default is [/home/ryan]
/home/ryan/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Do you wish to build TensorFlow with GPU support? [y/N] y
GPU support will be enabled for TensorFlow
Please specify which gcc should be used by nvcc as the host compiler. [Default is /usr/bin/gcc]: 
Please specify the Cuda SDK version you want to use, e.g. 7.0. [Leave empty to use system default]: 8.0
Please specify the location where CUDA 8.0 toolkit is installed. Refer to README.md for more details. [Default is /usr/local/cuda]: 
Please specify the Cudnn version you want to use. [Leave empty to use system default]: 5.0
Please specify the location where cuDNN 5.0 library is installed. Refer to README.md for more details. [Default is /usr/local/cuda]: 
Invalid path to cuDNN  toolkit. Neither of the following two files can be found:
/usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64/libcudnn.so.5.0
/usr/local/cuda-8.0/libcudnn.so.5.0
.5.0
Please specify the Cudnn version you want to use. [Leave empty to use system default]: 
Please specify the location where cuDNN  library is installed. Refer to README.md for more details. [Default is /usr/local/cuda]: 
libcudnn.so resolves to libcudnn.5
Please specify a list of comma-separated Cuda compute capabilities you want to build with.
You can find the compute capability of your device at: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus.
Please note that each additional compute capability significantly increases your build time and binary size.
[Default is: "3.5,5.2"]: 
INFO: Options provided by the client:
  Inherited 'common' options: --isatty=1 --terminal_columns=120
INFO: Reading options for 'clean' from /home/ryan/git_ryan/models/syntaxnet/tensorflow/tools/bazel.rc:
  Inherited 'build' options: --force_python=py2 --host_force_python=py2 --python2_path=/home/ryan/anaconda2/bin/python --define=use_fast_cpp_protos=true --define=allow_oversize_protos=true --define PYTHON_BIN_PATH=/home/ryan/anaconda2/bin/python --spawn_strategy=standalone --genrule_strategy=standalone
**INFO: Reading options for 'clean' from /etc/bazel.bazelrc:
  Inherited 'build' options: --action_env=PATH --action_env=LD_LIBRARY_PATH --action_env=TMPDIR --test_env=PATH --test_env=LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Unrecognized option: --action_env=PATH
ERROR: /home/ryan/git_ryan/models/syntaxnet/tensorflow/tensorflow/tensorflow.bzl:568:26: Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/home/ryan/git_ryan/models/syntaxnet/tensorflow/tensorflow/tensorflow.bzl", line 562
        rule(attrs = {"srcs": attr.label_list..."), <3 more arguments>)}, <2 more arguments>)
    File "/home/ryan/git_ryan/models/syntaxnet/tensorflow/tensorflow/tensorflow.bzl", line 568, in rule
        attr.label_list(cfg = "data", allow_files = True)
expected ConfigurationTransition or NoneType for 'cfg' while calling label_list but got string instead: data.
ERROR: com.google.devtools.build.lib.packages.BuildFileContainsErrorsException: error loading package '': Extension file 'tensorflow/tensorflow.bzl' has errors.
Configuration finished**

Answer 1

I think the version of your bazel is too high for Syntaxnet. you can try bazel-0.3.1 please.