Glob patterns does not accept parentheses

[dmarting@trantor] /tmp/test$ cat BUILD 
filegroup(name = "test", srcs = glob(["**"], exclude = ["**/*(*"]))
[dmarting@trantor] /tmp/test$ cat WORKSPACE 
[dmarting@trantor] /tmp/test$ bazel build :test
ERROR: /tmp/test/BUILD:1:33: Traceback (most recent call last):
	File "/tmp/test/BUILD", line 1
		filegroup(name = "test", srcs = glob(["**"],..."]))
	File "/tmp/test/BUILD", line 1, in filegroup
		glob(["**"], exclude = ["**/*(*"])
illegal character '('
ERROR: no such target '//:test': target 'test' not declared in package '' defined by /tmp/test/BUILD
INFO: Elapsed time: 0.176s
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully
[dmarting@trantor] /tmp/test$ ls -R
.:
BUILD  WORKSPACE

[damienmg]

@harmank the log is just telling me which test has failed. It output the test log file that you can look at to the see the actual test failure.

[damienmg]

So this behavior dates back from the beginning of Blaze, there is no explanation whatsoever why those characters are not allowed in globs. I guess they wanted to reserve them to expand the glob pattern syntax. I would try to remove that restriction and run the test suite and see what it says 😃.