Merge pull request #21004 from miaout17/r1.10

Hardcode Protobuf library version in contrib/makefiles (r1.10 branch)

tensorflow/contrib/makefile/download_dependencies.sh

@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@ EIGEN_URL="$(grep -o 'http.*bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/get/.*tar\.gz' "${BZL_FILE
 GEMMLOWP_URL="$(grep -o 'https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/google/gemmlowp/.*zip' "${BZL_FILE_PATH}" | head -n1)"
 GOOGLETEST_URL="https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.8.0.tar.gz"
 NSYNC_URL="$(grep -o 'https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/google/nsync/.*tar\.gz' "${BZL_FILE_PATH}" | head -n1)"
-PROTOBUF_URL="$(grep -o 'https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/google/protobuf/.*tar\.gz' "${BZL_FILE_PATH}" | head -n1)"
+# Note: The Protobuf source in `tensorflow/workspace.bzl` in TensorFlow
+# 1.10 branch does not work. `make distclean` fails and blocks the build
+# process. For now we're hardcoding to the version which is used by
+# TensorFlow 1.9.
+PROTOBUF_URL="https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/google/protobuf/archive/396336eb961b75f03b25824fe86cf6490fb75e3a.tar.gz"
 RE2_URL="$(grep -o 'https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/google/re2/.*tar\.gz' "${BZL_FILE_PATH}" | head -n1)"
 FFT2D_URL="$(grep -o 'http.*fft\.tgz' "${BZL_FILE_PATH}" | grep -v bazel-mirror | head -n1)"
 DOUBLE_CONVERSION_URL="$(grep -o "https.*google/double-conversion.*\.zip" "${BZL_FILE_PATH}" | head -n1)"