From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:05:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Add uninstall target to Makefile
Message-ID: <7vu0gkfwak.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050916191953.GD22825@tuxdriver.com>

"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:08:10AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I would agree with that.  Definitely better to use the same Makefile
> vars used for install to do the uninstall.

True.  That is something I could live with.