Anybody knows how to patch tarballs that bazel extracts?

[Klaus T. Aehlig]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 08:33:57AM +0200, Klaus T. Aehlig wrote:
> Actually, it is not that far in the future; in fact, event today, bazel's
> cc_library rule accepts an .so in the sources attribute, making a work around
> possible (patching WORKSPACE to point to a hand-crafted directory under WRKDIR
> as a local_repository, with hand-crafted BUILD-files, essentially taking
> things from ${LOCALBASE}).

Related bazel issue: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/3402