Currently I am trying to convert an existing cpp project to use the bazel build system. One of my projects dependencies is the library assimp. Currently, I have a git submodule setup that points to the assimp git repository, and in bazel I am adding this as a “local_repository” and then using rules_foreign_cc to build assimp from source. My current issue is that assimp has a subdirectory for tools used to contribute to assimp. However one of these tools has a BUILD.bazel file, that triggers a lot of errors from my current bazel setup that I cannot be asked to fix. I have already tried adding the file to .bazelignore but bazel doesn’t seem to respect it and still attempts to build it anyways. How do I fix this?

Thanks