Running Mercurial with a custom Python version: version mismatch

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 08:33 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> > If this isn't working, then something is wrong with your setup process.
> 
> I now realized my mistake: I had been testing the new Mercurial
> installation using 'make local' and apparently this does not perform
> the steps you described.
> As soon as I switch to a regular install with a custom PREFIX, the
> python path was indeed hardcoded as expected.
> 
> Is there a specific reason for not performing these steps in the 'make
> local' case?

It's just the way setup.py/distutils works. It wouldn't be ideal for
those of us who run 'hg' right out of a working copy as it's a tracked
file.

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