Mercurial 1.8.3 released!

[Nicolas Dumazet]

2011/5/1 Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at gmail.com>:
[...]
> because that's where I have my current version of Mercurial. I want to put
> it in /home/daniel/.local, so this is what I did:
>
> export PREFIX=/home/daniel/.local
> make all
> make install
>
> But it still tries to install to /usr/local:
[...]
>
> :-(

Remember, it's make, so you need to pass PREFIX to the target differently:
make PREFIX=~/bar install-bin

I just tried that on 1.8.3, and it works just fine.

Anyway, to install to your ~/.local , distutils has a neat --user
option to their install target.
I usually do:
   python setup.py install --user
when I do not want to make this install a system-wide install.

(Of course, make sure to add ~/.local/bin to your PATH after that...)

Cheers,
-- 
Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ