Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-08 Thread William Pursell
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the respective application. I was curious as to how

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the respective application. I was curious as to how

The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the respective application. I was curious as to how effective this command was. It

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 06 October 2007 21:18:29 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the respective

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
make uninstall is rarely supported and most often doesn't work. If you want something similiar, but generally has much less trouble, you might want to look at stow (debian package: stow, upstream url: http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) Rarely supported meaning by developers? I guess

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Miles Bader
Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: make uninstall is rarely supported and most often doesn't work. There are certainly a fair number of packages that don't correctly support make uninstall, but I'm not sure it's accurate to say it's rarely supported or most often it doesn't work. For