Ubuntu 16.04 can't compile latest changeset on default branch

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "MK" == Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski at mekk.waw.pl> writes:

>> | python3 gendoc.py "hg.1.gendoc" > hg.1.gendoc.txt.tmp
>> …
>> | TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly
>> …

> Using legacy system (Ubuntu 16.04) I wouldn't try using python3 for hg.

Right, it is 3.5 and matlab also removed its python3 support for this
specific version.

So the simple question is: can I compile it with python2.7 and if I can,

how do I configure the Makefile or any other relevant to take 2.7. I
can't find anything relevant in the Makefile.



> Mayhaps you found some actual error, mayhaps not … but I doubt
> Mercurial is noticeably tested against old versions of python3
> (and I doubt it is worth it).
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