empty directories and archive

Downloads page say it's ok to install Inferno by cloning the repo, but Bitbucket repo doesn't contain a lot of important empty directories and it doesn't create them automatically while compiling Inferno.

List of important absent directories:

keydb/countersigned
keydb/signed
mail
man/lib/man
man/lib/permind
mnt
mnt/9win
mnt/acme
mnt/arch
mnt/diary
mnt/factotum
mnt/gossip
mnt/icontact
mnt/ilog
mnt/incall
mnt/isubs
mnt/itrack
mnt/keys
mnt/keysrv
mnt/quiz
mnt/registry
mnt/rstyxreg
mnt/schedule
mnt/vmail
mnt/wm
mnt/wrap
mnt/wsys
n
n/cd
n/client
n/client/chan
n/client/dev
n/disk
n/dist
n/dump
n/ftp
n/gridfs
n/kfs
n/local
n/rdbg
n/registry
n/remote
services/logs
services/ppp
src
tmp
usr/inferno/charon
usr/inferno/keyring
usr/inferno/tmp

List of absent directories which probably may be created automatically while compiling:

FreeBSD/386/lib
Inferno/386/bin
Inferno/arm/bin
Inferno/mips/bin
Inferno/mips/lib
Inferno/power/bin
Inferno/power/lib
Inferno/sparc/bin
Inferno/sparc/lib
Inferno/thumb/bin
Inferno/thumb/lib
Irix/mips/lib
Linux/arm/bin
Linux/arm/lib
MacOSX/386/lib
MacOSX/power/lib
NetBSD/386/lib
Nt/386/lib
OpenBSD/386/bin
OpenBSD/386/lib
OpenBSD/arm
OpenBSD/arm/bin
OpenBSD/arm/lib
Plan9/386/lib
Plan9/mips/bin
Plan9/mips/lib
Plan9/power/bin
Plan9/power/lib
Plan9/sparc/bin
Plan9/sparc/lib
Solaris/sparc/lib

List of absent directories which probably was intentionally removed some time ago:

acme/acid/386
grid
lib/brutus
prof
Hp
Hp/s800
Hp/s800/bin
Hp/s800/include
Hp/s800/lib

If only right way to install Inferno is start with inferno-20150328.tgz (which contains all these directories except from 3rd listing) instead of cloning the repo, then current archive probably should be fixed:

directories n/client, n/client/chan and n/client/dev have unusual permissions 0555 which result in error when one use rm -rf to remove directory with unpacked archive
if binaries in Linux/386/bin was added intentionally, then 4 of them (data2c, iyacc, mk, mkext) should be replaced with same files from repo (now they're differ from repo), to avoid future conflicts when these files change in repo
difference in libinterp/runt.h looks wrong - both archive and repo should have same version of this file
differences in mkconfig may make sense, but, still, I believe it's better to have same version of this file both in repo and archive to avoid future conflicts

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