thank you minux and andrey.

I realized I needed something in the file; 'touch VERSION' wasn't fooling
it.



On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtchovski@gmail.com>wrote:

> it's "$GOROOT/VERSION.cache". just put whatever you want in there or
> bind it from /tmp if you don't want to pollute the non-plan9 side of
> things.
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Skip Tavakkolian
> <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately doesn't seem to help:
> >
> > cpue% ./all.rc
> > # Building C bootstrap tool.
> > cmd/dist
> > go tool dist: FAILED: /bin/hg identify -b:
> > '/n/zotac/usr/local/go/VERSION.cache' does not exist
> > abort:: '/bin/abort:' directory entry not found
> > cpue%
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:32 PM, minux <minux.ma@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Monday, April 15, 2013, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I can build Go from tip on Plan 9 using a local repo clone.  I want to
> >>> build it using a repo exported from a Linux box (via u9fs) -- because
> of
> >>> codereview extensions and keeping a consistent repo.  Trying to build a
> >>> remotely mounted clone, I get:
> >>>
> >>> cpue% ./all.rc
> >>> # Building C bootstrap tool.
> >>> cmd/dist
> >>>
> >>> # Building compilers and Go bootstrap tool for host, plan9/386.
> >>> *** failed to import extension codereview from
> >>> $GOROOT/lib/codereview/codereview.py: [Errno 12] Invalid argument
> >>> abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)
> >>
> >> you should disable the codereview plugin in .hg/hgrc.
> >>
> >> another workaround is to create $GOROOT/VERSION file manually so that
> >> the build process won't need mercurial.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> go tool dist: FAILED: /bin/hg identify -b:
> >>> '/n/zotac/usr/local/go/VERSION.cache' does not exist
> >>> cpue%
> >>>
> >>> /n/zotac is the Linux filesystem that is served by u9fs. Any hints?
> >
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