From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: inferno-list@vitanuova.com
Subject: Re: [9fans] inferno from hg does not build out of the box
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 07:03:25 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0910020703030.23231@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091002045200.GA16743@nipl.net>
> 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.
committing a ".emptydir" file in each directory would be easier.
> Sam
Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-02 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 4:27 [9fans] corrections to /sys/src/cmd/8l/l.h lucio
2009-10-01 10:22 ` sqweek
2009-10-01 13:23 ` [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting Sam Watkins
2009-10-01 13:48 ` Abhishek Kulkarni
2009-10-01 17:09 ` C H Forsyth
2009-10-01 16:59 ` Russ Cox
2009-10-02 1:27 ` jrm8005
2009-10-01 18:19 ` ron minnich
2009-10-01 18:23 ` David Leimbach
2009-10-01 18:25 ` David Leimbach
2009-10-01 18:26 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-10-01 18:34 ` Vinu Rajashekhar
2009-10-02 4:52 ` [9fans] inferno from hg does not build out of the box Sam Watkins
2009-10-02 8:44 ` roger peppe
2009-10-02 10:44 ` C H Forsyth
2009-10-02 15:03 ` David Leimbach
2009-10-02 17:03 ` Tim Newsham [this message]
2009-10-02 18:31 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-10-02 18:39 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-10-02 21:07 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-10-03 15:12 ` Sam Watkins
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