From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:26:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: create an install-symlinks target
Message-ID: <20070729222604.GB5753@xp.machine.xx>
In-Reply-To: <85lkcyvr4f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:26:08PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> [commit text mostly pinched from INSTALL]
> 
> An alternative global installation method making it much easier to
> uninstall is to use a package-specific prefix like /opt/git, then
> create symlinks from /usr/local into that hierarchy.  Uninstalling can
> then be achieved by
> 
> 	# rm -rf /opt/git; find /usr/local -xtype l -delete
> 
> You can create a setup like that after having used one of the above
> install recipes with prefix=/opt/git by writing
> 
> 	# make prefix=/opt/git symlinkprefix=/usr/local install-symlinks
> 
> This works by copying the directory hierarchy of $prefix to
> $symlinkprefix (not copying or descending to any directories of the
> name git* matched case-insensitively), then linking all the rest.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>

AFAIR I suggested this the last time this came up, but in case you
missed it:

Use (x)stow for this. It does exactly what you want. No need to hack the
Makefile.

-Peter