error installing mercurial

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Mon Apr 12 02:57:47 CDT 2010


On 04/12/2010 06:49 AM, Jean-Claude Passy wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I got the following error when trying to install mercurial 1.5.1:
>
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>
> [21:40:27] seawolf1:$ which python
>
> /usr/bin/python
>
> [21:42:05] seawolf1:$ python -V
>
> Python 2.4.3
>
> [21:42:15] seawolf1:$ make install PREFIX=/global/home/jcpassy/hg > out.txt
>
> /bin/sh: line 0: .: -C: invalid option
>
> .: usage: . filename [arguments]
>
> make: *** [doc] Error 2

What platform? What version of make?

I think GNU make is required - but I don't know where that is 
documented? (Other requirements such as Python >= 2.4 is also hard to 
find. Complaints from setup.py seems to be all there is.)

/Mads


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