Install Mercurial into a Local Directory in Solaris10

[Mads Kiilerich]

Kevin Bullock wrote, On 09/08/2011 08:24 PM:
> On 8 Sep 2011, at 10:53 AM, Jie Sheng Chua wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I try to install Mercurial in solaris10 via the make file I get 
>> this message:
>>
>> -bash-3.00$ *make*
>> make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 9: Unexpected end of line 
>> seen
>
> Try gmake?
>
> pacem in terris / mir / shanti / salaam / heiwa
> Kevin R. Bullock
>
>> If I run Python to install using:
>>
>> *python setup.py install --force --home=$HOME*
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "setup.py", line 439, in <module>
>>     **extra)
>>   File "/home/sadm/lib/python3.2/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup

- and don't use python 3. Mercurial requires python 2.

Do python3 install itself as "python" when installing from source?

Mercurial contain very incomplete and unmaintained python 3 support. It 
would perhaps be better if Mercurial complained loudly on python 3 - and 
if the bit-rotting python 3 code was removed from main Mercurial and 
moved to a separate branch/repo.

/Mads