On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:23:24PM +1000, Sam Watkins wrote: > Speaking of hg - I think we should patch it to support empty directories so > that the inferno checkout actually builds.
It's a bit sad when a modern OS (inferno) from one of the best labs in the world does not build (from hg), due to a error that could be avoided with a tiny patch. You are losing new users because of this (or aggrevating them). Why not commit the list of empty directories and add mkdir -p `<empty-dirs` to makemk.sh or something like that? It's a 1 minute fix, and could be removed if anyone fixes hg. Also there is a standard utility "uname" which could be used to write a short configure script (for unix; "" would mean plan 9!). I'm happy to do this if someone is willing to review and commit it. Sam
