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+++ b/build/buildutils/checkemptydirectories.py	Mon Oct 04 00:10:53 2010 +0300
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+# All rights reserved.
+# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+# Initial Contributors:
+# Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+#
+# Contributors:
+#
+# Description:
+#   Checks for empty directories (ignoring .svn directories) recursively 
+#   starting from the given path. This check is done because Mercurial does 
+#   not support empty directories.
+
+import sys, os, re
+
+def main():
+
+    def visitFun(arg, dirname, names):
+
+        # Skip SVN directories
+        if dirname.find("\\.svn") != -1:
+            return
+        
+        # Check if the directory is empty (except for the .svn subdirectory)
+        if len(names) == 0 or (len(names) == 1 and names[0] == ".svn"):
+            print dirname
+
+    root = sys.argv[1]
+    os.path.walk(root, visitFun, None)
+
+    
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()