mercurial on ubuntu

[Dr Rainer Woitok]

Uwe,

On Sunday, 2021-02-21 18:40:59 +0100, you wrote:

> ...
>    >    $ cd ~
>    >    $ hg clone -U https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg-stable mercurial
>    >    $ cd mercurial
>    >    $ hg up stable
>    >    $ make local
>    >    $ make doc
> 
> Why don't you run
> 
>  make deb

1. I started rolling my own Mercurial  and shortly later also some other
   packages back in the late nineties using Solaris.   I am neither sure
   whether "deb"  already was a "make" target then  nor whether it would
   have bought me anything under Solaris.

2. Since different packages had different ways of configuring, building,
   providing documentation, testing, installing,  and uninstalling them,
   my scripts kept these individual tasks apart from the very beginning.

Above I more or less used copy and paste from my Mercurial configuration
section and  not even bothered  to replace the  two "make" calls  into a
single "make local doc".  But in any case this should work universally.

Sincerely,
  Rainer