diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index d1fcbbb..202c491 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ package. The configure script from alsa-utils package probably cannot find
 header file asoundlib.h in $prefix/include/alsa directory (usually in
 /usr/include/alsa directory).
 
-Compilation from CVS sources
-----------------------------
+Compilation from HG sources
+---------------------------
 
 You need also GNU packages autoconf and automake installed in your system
-to compile CVS sources of alsa-utils package.
+to compile HG (Mercurial) sources of alsa-utils package.
 
 For compilation you can use these commands:
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ For compilation you can use these commands:
 	./configure
 	make
 
-The included cvscompile script does this job for you.
+The included hgcompile script does this job for you.
 
 Note: Some automake packages have missing aclocal program. Use newer version
       in the case.
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 1003eb6..e626cf2 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ else
 ALSAMIXER_DIR=
 endif
 SUBDIRS= include alsactl alsaconf $(ALSAMIXER_DIR) amidi amixer aplay iecset seq speaker-test utils m4 po
-EXTRA_DIST= config.rpath mkinstalldirs ChangeLog INSTALL TODO README configure cvscompile depcomp
+EXTRA_DIST= config.rpath mkinstalldirs ChangeLog INSTALL TODO README configure hgcompile depcomp
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS=foreign
 ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
 
diff --git a/hgcompile b/hgcompile
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..18bc940
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hgcompile
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+if test -d ../alsa-lib/utils && ! test -r `aclocal --print-ac-dir`/alsa.m4; then
+  alsa_m4_flags="-I ../alsa-lib/utils"
+fi
+aclocal $alsa_m4_flags $ACLOCAL_FLAGS
+# save original files to avoid stupid modifications by gettextize
+cp Makefile.am Makefile.am.ok
+cp configure.in configure.in.ok
+gettextize -c -f --no-changelog
+echo "EXTRA_DIST = gettext.m4" > m4/Makefile.am
+cp Makefile.am.ok Makefile.am
+cp configure.in.ok configure.in
+autoheader
+automake --foreign --copy --add-missing
+touch depcomp		# for older automake
+autoconf
+export CFLAGS='-O2 -Wall -pipe -g'
+echo "CFLAGS=$CFLAGS"
+echo "./configure $@"
+./configure $@ || exit 1
+unset CFLAGS
+if [ -z "$HGCOMPILE_NO_MAKE" ]; then
+  make
+fi