Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

2000-05-13 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Assar" == Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Assar> Currently automake does not remove directories in `make Assar> uninstall' and I did not find any text regarding this in the Assar> GNU coding guidelines either. So what's the right thing to do Assar> here? Assar> d) remove all

Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

2000-05-13 Thread Lars Hecking
> If it's an automake'd package, or it follows the GNU coding > guidelines, it'll mkinstalldirs the directories. mkinstalldirs does not keep track of what it creates. It does not care whether part of the path to be created exists already, it just mkdir's the missing dirs. > But it does crea

Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

2000-05-13 Thread Assar Westerlund
Lars Hecking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assar Westerlund writes: > > a) always remove the directories > > b) just remove the directories that were created during `make install' > > c) remove the last level of directory if it's empty > > d) remove all the levels that are empty > > A package sy

Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

2000-05-13 Thread Lars Hecking
Assar Westerlund writes: > Currently automake does not remove directories in `make uninstall' and > I did not find any text regarding this in the GNU coding guidelines > either. So what's the right thing to do here? > > a) always remove the directories > b) just remove the directories that were

shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

2000-05-13 Thread Assar Westerlund
Currently automake does not remove directories in `make uninstall' and I did not find any text regarding this in the GNU coding guidelines either. So what's the right thing to do here? a) always remove the directories b) just remove the directories that were created during `make install' c) remo