I have been trying to install Mercurial on a GoDaddy deluxe server which I have ssh access to. It fails because the server does not have GCC installed and I do not wish to attempt to install it. GoDaddy support said I need to compile Mercurial locally and move it to their server.
Could anybody refer me to some resources on how to compile software and then move it? Thanks!
I used the following instructions to get Mercurial up and running on a shared HostGator account with SSH access. It builds Mercurial in "pure Python" mode (not sure what that means but perhaps it gets it working without the need for GCC?).
Why do you want to install mercurial? A lot of times, it's unnecessary to install a DVCS on the server for any type of code hosting. You can just set a ssh:// push-url to something on the server, and that way any Hg client will read from the .hg directory.