pantheon mercury pressflow install troubleshooting

Suddenly having quite a bit of trouble with the mercury make file attempting to branch pressflow from launchpad... works in command line and using get and full url in makefile. been at the problem for awhile...

I did this yesterday and tried again today...

Please see the last two items in this thread...

(oh and I'm using rackspace cloud servers as usual, which are usually flawless with your instructions... everything else goes smoothly!)

Thanks!