Error when building & installing hg from sources

[Jeremy Whitlock]

> I'm trying to install hg from a copy I've pulled from
> http://selenic.com/repo/hg. It gives the following when error message:
>
> [ourson77 at localhost hg]$ python setup.py  install --prefix=$HOME/Programs
...
>  File "/opt/wrk/hg/mercurial/util.py", line 1069, in <module>
>    class atomictempfile(posixfile):
> NameError: name 'posixfile' is not defined

I had the same thing.  There is an issue already for this:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue1575  The issue has a patch
you can apply locally to fix.

> /home/ourson77/Programs/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial-unknown-py2.5.egg-info
> Writing
> /home/ourson77/Programs/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial-unknown-py2.5.egg-info

The "unknown" version in your egg is also another potential problem.
I submitted a patch yesterday to resolve this.  If you can't find it,
let me know.

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Take care,

Jeremy Whitlock
http://www.thoughtspark.org