recover when no version information is available

setup.py

@@ -1,171 +1,171
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 #
 # This is the mercurial setup script.
 #
 # 'python setup.py install', or
 # 'python setup.py --help' for more options
 
 import sys
 if not hasattr(sys, 'version_info') or sys.version_info < (2, 3, 0, 'final'):
     raise SystemExit("Mercurial requires python 2.3 or later.")
 
 # Solaris Python packaging brain damage
 try:
     import hashlib
     sha = hashlib.sha1()
 except:
     try:
         import sha
     except:
         raise SystemExit(
             "Couldn't import standard hashlib (incomplete Python install).")
 
 try:
     import zlib
 except:
     raise SystemExit(
         "Couldn't import standard zlib (incomplete Python install).")
 
 import os, time
 import shutil
 import tempfile
 from distutils.core import setup, Extension
 from distutils.command.install_data import install_data
 from distutils.ccompiler import new_compiler
 
 extra = {}
 scripts = ['hg']
 if os.name == 'nt':
     scripts.append('contrib/win32/hg.bat')
 
 # simplified version of distutils.ccompiler.CCompiler.has_function
 # that actually removes its temporary files.
 def has_function(cc, funcname):
     tmpdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='hg-install-')
     devnull = oldstderr = None
     try:
         try:
             fname = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'funcname.c')
             f = open(fname, 'w')
             f.write('int main(void) {\n')
             f.write('    %s();\n' % funcname)
             f.write('}\n')
             f.close()
             # Redirect stderr to /dev/null to hide any error messages
             # from the compiler.
             # This will have to be changed if we ever have to check
             # for a function on Windows.
             devnull = open('/dev/null', 'w')
             oldstderr = os.dup(sys.stderr.fileno())
             os.dup2(devnull.fileno(), sys.stderr.fileno())
             objects = cc.compile([fname])
             cc.link_executable(objects, os.path.join(tmpdir, "a.out"))
         except:
             return False
         return True
     finally:
         if oldstderr is not None:
             os.dup2(oldstderr, sys.stderr.fileno())
         if devnull is not None:
             devnull.close()
         shutil.rmtree(tmpdir)
 
 # py2exe needs to be installed to work
 try:
     import py2exe
 
     # Help py2exe to find win32com.shell
     try:
         import modulefinder
         import win32com
         for p in win32com.__path__[1:]: # Take the path to win32comext
             modulefinder.AddPackagePath("win32com", p)
         pn = "win32com.shell"
         __import__(pn)
         m = sys.modules[pn]
         for p in m.__path__[1:]:
             modulefinder.AddPackagePath(pn, p)
     except ImportError:
         pass
 
     extra['console'] = ['hg']
 
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
 try:
     l = os.popen('hg id -it').read().split()
     while len(l) > 1 and l[-1][0].isalpha(): # remove non-numbered tags
         l.pop()
-    version = l[-1] or 'unknown' # latest tag or revision number
+    version = l and l[-1] or 'unknown' # latest tag or revision number
     if version.endswith('+'):
         version += time.strftime('%Y%m%d')
 
 except OSError:
     version = "unknown"
 
 f = file("mercurial/__version__.py", "w")
 f.write('# this file is autogenerated by setup.py\n')
 f.write('version = "%s"\n' % version)
 f.close()
 
 class install_package_data(install_data):
     def finalize_options(self):
         self.set_undefined_options('install',
                                    ('install_lib', 'install_dir'))
         install_data.finalize_options(self)
 
 cmdclass = {'install_data': install_package_data}
 
 ext_modules=[
     Extension('mercurial.base85', ['mercurial/base85.c']),
     Extension('mercurial.bdiff', ['mercurial/bdiff.c']),
     Extension('mercurial.diffhelpers', ['mercurial/diffhelpers.c']),
     Extension('mercurial.mpatch', ['mercurial/mpatch.c']),
     Extension('mercurial.parsers', ['mercurial/parsers.c']),
     ]
 
 packages = ['mercurial', 'mercurial.hgweb', 'hgext', 'hgext.convert',
             'hgext.highlight', 'hgext.zeroconf', ]
 
 try:
     import msvcrt
     ext_modules.append(Extension('mercurial.osutil', ['mercurial/osutil.c']))
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
 try:
     import posix
     ext_modules.append(Extension('mercurial.osutil', ['mercurial/osutil.c']))
 
     if sys.platform == 'linux2' and os.uname()[2] > '2.6':
         # The inotify extension is only usable with Linux 2.6 kernels.
         # You also need a reasonably recent C library.
         cc = new_compiler()
         if has_function(cc, 'inotify_add_watch'):
             ext_modules.append(Extension('hgext.inotify.linux._inotify',
                                          ['hgext/inotify/linux/_inotify.c']))
             packages.extend(['hgext.inotify', 'hgext.inotify.linux'])
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
 setup(name='mercurial',
       version=version,
       author='Matt Mackall',
       author_email='[e-mail]',
       url='http://selenic.com/mercurial',
       description='Scalable distributed SCM',
       license='GNU GPL',
       scripts=scripts,
       packages=packages,
       ext_modules=ext_modules,
       data_files=[(os.path.join('mercurial', root),
                    [os.path.join(root, file_) for file_ in files])
                   for root, dirs, files in os.walk('templates')],
       cmdclass=cmdclass,
       options=dict(py2exe=dict(packages=['hgext', 'email']),
                    bdist_mpkg=dict(zipdist=True,
                                    license='COPYING',
                                    readme='contrib/macosx/Readme.html',
                                    welcome='contrib/macosx/Welcome.html')),
       **extra)