On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:13:56PM +0200, Philippe Delavalade wrote: > Many thanks for answers but how can I remove perl ? I presume it is not > right to just reinstall it. > > I tried > make uninstall > but there is no rule :-) Never trust uninstall rules, they are rarely tested as much as the make and install. Some years ago, one of the packages in LFS was known to do the wrong thing (for us) when people ran 'make uninstall' - although ISTR the maintainer could justify what it did.
If perl went into /usr/local, and you still have perl in /tools, delete the files and directories from /usr/local (particularly, the executable(s) from /usr/local/bin) - there shouldn't be any files intentionally installed to /usr/local at this stage of your build. > > My question is certainly stupid but I didn't found anything on this > neither in the book nor in the FAQ. > > When installing perl I pass the right prefix but may be I did a mistake > when running the interractive configure script :-( > For perl, you have to remember that it predates modern configure processes (so, it has an excuse, unlike mozilla's descendants - yes, I feel like a bit of gratuitous abuse ;-), but if I were to describe perl's configury as a maze of horrid dark alleyways I would be understating the problem. I must admit, I have problems understanding why we still mention running configure interactively. I recall a past thread where Dan, I think, pointed out that running the interactive configure after a non-interactive did bad things. So, either go with the non-interactive, or remove the perl sources and re-extract them before running the interactive configure. > Thanks > > Philippe > And please don't top-post in future. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
