[MacPorts] #18408: Cannot upgrade mercurial (macports wants to reinstall latest dependencies)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 7, 2009, at 07:12, robert delius royar wrote:

> By the way, I finally did a manual upgrade of the port (stepping  
> through each phase of the build and discovered that configure is  
> not in the the tarball for the port.  But macports calls it anyway.  
> Stopping the build. The prefix variable in the mercurial Makefile  
> and setup.py is still set to /usr/local (there are no patches).  I  
> think the problem I am having is at a lower level than the  
> mercurial port, but the port itself does not appear to be correct  
> for the tarball being downloaded.

Just a quick note to say mercurial @1.1.2_0 installs fine for me on  
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel.