Here s the answer from here:
Thanks for the email discussion.
Mercurial includes a README which explains a couple of modes of execution:
Basic install:
$ make # see install targets
$ make install # do a system-wide install
$ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
$ hg # see help
Running without installing:
$ make local # build for inplace usage
$ ./hg --version # should show the latest version
"make install" will not work as it attempts to do a system-wide install. The user on the gears will not have access to write to system files.
"make install-home" will not work either.
"make local" works and will install it in cwd such that running the following will should work just fine:
./hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.2.1)
(see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information)