hg upgrade issue

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
>
> Yesterday, I installed 1.4 from source (using make) on a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit
> install (yeah, I'm starting to get my feet wet on Linux...) using
>
>  http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.4.tar.gz
>
> and got "(version unknown)" as well on 'hg version'.
>
> Then I cloned http://selenic.com/repo/hg using that hg, updated to 1.4 and
> ran make again (including installing as suggested by make). After that,
> 'hg version' reported 1.4.

I tested it here (unset PYTHONPATH, remove hg from PATH) and it worked
with make local. I really wonder what the difference could be.

cheers,

Benoit