Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2013-05-19

Chapter 13. Programming

mercurial-2.5.2

Introduction to Mercurial

Mercurial is a distributed source control management tool similar to CVS, Subversion and Git. Mercurial is written in Python and is used by projects such as Mozilla, Vim and Audacious.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.3 platform.

Package Information

Mercurial Dependencies

Required

Python-2.7.5

Optional

Docutils (required to build the documentation), git-1.8.2.3, gpg2 (with Python bindings), Subversion-1.7.8 (with Python bindings), bazaar-2.5.0, CVS-1.11.23, pyflakes, pygments, and pyOpenSSL

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mercurial

Installation of Mercurial

Build Mercurial by issuing the following command: 

make build

To build the documentation (requires Docutils), issue: 

make doc

To test the results, issue: make check.

Install Mercurial by running the following command (as root): 

make PREFIX=/usr install-bin

If you built the documentation, install it by running the following command (as root): 

make PREFIX=/usr install-doc

Contents

Installed Programs: hg
Installed Libraries: none
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgext and /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial

Short Descriptions

hg

is the program file for mercurial.

Last updated on 2013-03-31 11:22:49 +0000