* Revert "incorporate changes from microsoft:master"
* Revert "Revert "incorporate changes from microsoft:master""
* WIP: update to tensorflow 2.6
* update patch
* update more patches
* fix patch again
* fix new Windows compile/linkage errors
* fix patch
* fix patch again
* temporarily revert Windows build option fix to test whether upstream fix doesn't work
* check if constexpr is sufficient (is_same_v requires C++17)
* try patch for build parameters
* remove fastbuild patch and improve constexpr patch (no C++17 requirement)
(fastbuild patch didn't work because bazel overrides it with /DEBUG:FULL)
* x-add-version
* add C++17 preprocessor switch for "if constexpr"
* x-add-version
* remove pre-processor switch (doesn't work without)
* x-add-version
* work-around toolchain issues on macOS
* x-add-version
* fix Windows build options (must be string, not list)
* x-add-version
* temporarily add code to debug CI
* temporarily add more debug output as build doesn't even start on macOS CI
* remove debug code, add switch for linker parameters on macOS and re-introduce old behaviour (some platforms still use old behaviour)
* x-add-version
* fix broken string termination
* x-add-version
* fix function name
* x-add-version
Co-authored-by: jgehw <Joachim_Gehweiler@McAfee.com>
Co-authored-by: Billy Robert O'Neal III <bion@microsoft.com>