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parsers: fail fast if Python has wrong minor version (issue4110)

This change causes an informative ImportError to be raised when importing
the extension module parsers if the minor version of the currently-running
Python interpreter doesn't match that of the Python that was used when
compiling the extension module.  Here is an example of what the new error
looks like:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
      import mercurial.parsers
  ImportError: Python minor version mismatch: The Mercurial extension
  modules were compiled with Python 2.7.6, but Mercurial is currently using
  Python with sys.hexversion=33883888: Python 2.5.6
  (r256:88840, Nov 18 2012, 05:37:10)
  [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.1 ((tags/Apple/clang-421.11.66))]
   at: /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/
    Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python

The reason for raising an error in this scenario is that Python's C API
is known not to be compatible from minor version to minor version, even
if sys.api_version is the same.  See for example this Python bug report
about incompatibilities between 2.5 and 2.6+:

  http://bugs.python.org/issue8118

These incompatibilities can cause Mercurial to break in mysterious,
unforeseen ways.  For example, when Mercurial compiled with Python 2.7 was
run with 2.5, the following crash occurred when running "hg status":

  http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4110

After this crash was fixed, running with Python 2.5 no longer crashes, but
the following puzzling behavior still occurs:

    $ hg status
      ...
      File ".../mercurial/changelog.py", line 123, in __init__
        revlog.revlog.__init__(self, opener, "00changelog.i")
      File ".../mercurial/revlog.py", line 251, in __init__
        d = self._io.parseindex(i, self._inline)
      File ".../mercurial/revlog.py", line 158, in parseindex
        index, cache = parsers.parse_index2(data, inline)
    TypeError: data is not a string

which can be reproduced more simply with:

    import mercurial.parsers as parsers
    parsers.parse_index2("", True)

Both the crash and the TypeError occurred because the Python C API's
PyString_Check returns the wrong value when the C header files from
Python 2.7 are run with Python 2.5.  This is an example of an
incompatibility of the sort mentioned in the Python bug report above.

Failing fast with an informative error message will result in a better
user experience in cases like the above.  The information in the ImportError
will also simplify troubleshooting for those on Mercurial mailing lists,
the bug tracker, etc.

This patch only adds the version check to parsers.c, which is sufficient
to affect command-line commands like "hg status" and "hg summary".
An idea for a future improvement is to move the version-checking C code
to a more central location, and have it run when importing all
Mercurial extension modules and not just parsers.c.

# If you want to change PREFIX, do not just edit it below. The changed
# value wont get passed on to recursive make calls. You should instead
# override the variable on the command like:
#
# % make PREFIX=/opt/ install

PREFIX=/usr/local
export PREFIX
PYTHON=python
PURE=
PYFILES:=$(shell find mercurial hgext doc -name '*.py')
DOCFILES=mercurial/help/*.txt
export LANGUAGE=C
export LC_ALL=C

# Set this to e.g. "mingw32" to use a non-default compiler.
COMPILER=

help:
	@echo 'Commonly used make targets:'
	@echo '  all          - build program and documentation'
	@echo '  install      - install program and man pages to PREFIX ($(PREFIX))'
	@echo '  install-home - install with setup.py install --home=HOME ($(HOME))'
	@echo '  local        - build for inplace usage'
	@echo '  tests        - run all tests in the automatic test suite'
	@echo '  test-foo     - run only specified tests (e.g. test-merge1.t)'
	@echo '  dist         - run all tests and create a source tarball in dist/'
	@echo '  clean        - remove files created by other targets'
	@echo '                 (except installed files or dist source tarball)'
	@echo '  update-pot   - update i18n/hg.pot'
	@echo
	@echo 'Example for a system-wide installation under /usr/local:'
	@echo '  make all && su -c "make install" && hg version'
	@echo
	@echo 'Example for a local installation (usable in this directory):'
	@echo '  make local && ./hg version'

all: build doc

local:
	$(PYTHON) setup.py $(PURE) \
	  build_py -c -d . \
	  build_ext $(COMPILER:%=-c %) -i \
	  build_hgexe $(COMPILER:%=-c %) -i \
	  build_mo
	env HGRCPATH= $(PYTHON) hg version

build:
	$(PYTHON) setup.py $(PURE) build $(COMPILER:%=-c %)

doc:
	$(MAKE) -C doc

clean:
	-$(PYTHON) setup.py clean --all # ignore errors from this command
	find contrib doc hgext i18n mercurial tests \
		\( -name '*.py[cdo]' -o -name '*.so' \) -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
	rm -f $(addprefix mercurial/,$(notdir $(wildcard mercurial/pure/[a-z]*.py)))
	rm -f MANIFEST MANIFEST.in mercurial/__version__.py tests/*.err
	rm -rf build mercurial/locale
	$(MAKE) -C doc clean

install: install-bin install-doc

install-bin: build
	$(PYTHON) setup.py $(PURE) install --root="$(DESTDIR)/" --prefix="$(PREFIX)" --force

install-doc: doc
	cd doc && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) install

install-home: install-home-bin install-home-doc

install-home-bin: build
	$(PYTHON) setup.py $(PURE) install --home="$(HOME)" --force

install-home-doc: doc
	cd doc && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) PREFIX="$(HOME)" install

MANIFEST-doc:
	$(MAKE) -C doc MANIFEST

MANIFEST.in: MANIFEST-doc
	hg manifest | sed -e 's/^/include /' > MANIFEST.in
	echo include mercurial/__version__.py >> MANIFEST.in
	sed -e 's/^/include /' < doc/MANIFEST >> MANIFEST.in

dist:	tests dist-notests

dist-notests:	doc MANIFEST.in
	TAR_OPTIONS="--owner=root --group=root --mode=u+w,go-w,a+rX-s" $(PYTHON) setup.py -q sdist

check: tests

tests:
	cd tests && $(PYTHON) run-tests.py $(TESTFLAGS)

test-%:
	cd tests && $(PYTHON) run-tests.py $(TESTFLAGS) $@

check-code:
	hg manifest | xargs python contrib/check-code.py

update-pot: i18n/hg.pot

i18n/hg.pot: $(PYFILES) $(DOCFILES)
	$(PYTHON) i18n/hggettext mercurial/commands.py \
	  hgext/*.py hgext/*/__init__.py \
	  mercurial/fileset.py mercurial/revset.py \
	  mercurial/templatefilters.py mercurial/templatekw.py \
	  mercurial/filemerge.py \
	  $(DOCFILES) > i18n/hg.pot.tmp
        # All strings marked for translation in Mercurial contain
        # ASCII characters only. But some files contain string
        # literals like this '\037\213'. xgettext thinks it has to
        # parse them even though they are not marked for translation.
        # Extracting with an explicit encoding of ISO-8859-1 will make
        # xgettext "parse" and ignore them.
	echo $(PYFILES) | xargs \
	  xgettext --package-name "Mercurial" \
	  --msgid-bugs-address "<[e-mail]>" \
	  --copyright-holder "Matt Mackall <[e-mail]> and others" \
	  --from-code ISO-8859-1 --join --sort-by-file --add-comments=i18n: \
	  -d hg -p i18n -o hg.pot.tmp
	$(PYTHON) i18n/posplit i18n/hg.pot.tmp
        # The target file is not created before the last step. So it never is in
        # an intermediate state.
	mv -f i18n/hg.pot.tmp i18n/hg.pot

%.po: i18n/hg.pot
        # work on a temporary copy for never having a half completed target
	cp $@ $@.tmp
	msgmerge --no-location --update $@.tmp $^
	mv -f $@.tmp $@

.PHONY: help all local build doc clean install install-bin install-doc \
	install-home install-home-bin install-home-doc dist dist-notests tests \
	update-pot