From: Martin Atukunda <matlads@dsmagic.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:03:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Add uninstall target to Makefile
Message-ID: <20050918100300.GA9890@igloo.ds.co.ug>
In-Reply-To: <20050916180810.GK8041@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>


On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:08:10AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * 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.

The external script only removes the symlinks created by ./cmd-rename.sh

- Martin -