Re: [PATCH] Uninstall rule for top level Makefile

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 12, 2006, 15:42 UTC
Message-ID: <200612121542.09259.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612121512060.2807@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Tuesday 2006 December 12 14:15, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> The uninstall target _only_ solves the case you mentioned: when you
> installed Git in the wrong place. But then it is fragile: if you put the
> new path into config.mak, or you provided the PREFIX on the command line,
> and possibly do not remember what it was, the uninstall goes wrong.

Absolutely. I agree entirely. The only reason I raised it was because I had cause to need it. The quickest way I found was just to write the missing recipe. As I'd written it, I thought I'd share. As you say, it has no other use than unpicking a stupid "install", done by a butterbrain like myself :-)

> But then, I do not care at all about that target being in the Makefile or
> not. I'll just ignore it, just as almost everybody else.

Until I needed it; I didn't care that it wasn't there. Even then "need" is perhaps too strong a word. It was handy. That's it. If there are strong moral objections to it; it doesn't bother me.

Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE