Subject: Re: Add uninstall target to Makefile

From: Martin Atukunda <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:03:00 +0300

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:08:10AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * John W. Linville ([email-masked]) 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 -