contrib/Makefile.python: build local Python from source This provides an easy way to install new or old Python versions on Unixish systems. It is mainly intended for testing Mercurial with different Python versions. Example: $ cd build $ make -f ../contrib/Makefile.python python PYTHONVER=2.4 PREFIX=/tmp/p24 $ /tmp/p24/bin/python -V Python 2.4 Tested on Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu with Python versions from 2.4 to 2.7.6. Most Python versions need some workarounds to compile on Debian-ish systems. The workarounds do not do any significant harm on Fedora.

Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing:

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.