Ability to optionally depend on Abseil plus upstream of 183716547
diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 106b824..1d5d388 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -1 +1,8 @@
 workspace(name = "com_google_googletest")
+
+# Abseil
+http_archive(
+     name = "com_google_absl",
+     urls = ["https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/master.zip"],
+     strip_prefix = "abseil-cpp-master",
+)