From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 18:08:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Add uninstall target to Makefile
Message-ID: <20050916180810.GK8041@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050916175402.GC22825@tuxdriver.com>

* John W. Linville (linville@tuxdriver.com) wrote:
> > Sorry, I absolutely detest other peoples' Makefiles that has
> > this target.  Why would anybody want this?
> 
> Is this a serious question?  To uninstall the binaries e.g. if you
> installed them in the wrong place?

Of course package manager will do better at this, but it is useful to be
able to uninstall.  However, I don't think Martin's external script with
all the filenames hardcoded is the right approach.  There are $(PROG)
and $(SCRIPTS) which already know all these filenames.

thanks,
-chris