Merge "Exclude prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/clang-dev/BUILD from the symlink forest."
diff --git a/cmd/soong_build/main.go b/cmd/soong_build/main.go
index bc2d5cb..966fa58 100644
--- a/cmd/soong_build/main.go
+++ b/cmd/soong_build/main.go
@@ -578,6 +578,17 @@
// FIXME: 'frameworks/compile/slang' has a filegroup error due to an escaping issue
excludes = append(excludes, "frameworks/compile/slang")
+ // FIXME(b/260809113): 'prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/clang-dev' is a tool-generated symlink directory that contains a BUILD file.
+ // The bazel files finder code doesn't traverse into symlink dirs, and hence is not aware of this BUILD file and exclude it accordingly
+ // during symlink forest generation when checking against keepExistingBuildFiles allowlist.
+ //
+ // This is necessary because globs in //prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/BUILD
+ // currently assume no subpackages (keepExistingBuildFile is not recursive for that directory).
+ //
+ // This is a bandaid until we the symlink forest logic can intelligently exclude BUILD files found in source symlink dirs according
+ // to the keepExistingBuildFile allowlist.
+ excludes = append(excludes, "prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/clang-dev")
+
return excludes
}