Building Mercurial 1.3 on RHEL 4

[Stephen Rasku]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 14:01, Stephen Rasku<mercurial at srasku.net> wrote:
> I am trying to build Hg 1.3 from the stable branch on my Red Hat EL4
> system.  I have installed Python 2.4 using the following yum
> repository:
>
>    baseurl=http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4/rpms/fedora-3/
>
> When I try and "make all", I get a bunch of activity which ends with:
>
>    error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
> /usr/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
>
> The entire /usr/lib/python2.4/config directory doesn't exist.  I am
> not a Python expert so I don't know if it should or not.  What should
> I do next?

I needed to install the python2.4-devel package.  After that, and
installing various other required packages, it built.

...Stephen