From: Martin Atukunda <matlads@dsmagic.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add uninstall target to Makefile
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:03:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050918100300.GA9890@igloo.ds.co.ug> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050916180810.GK8041@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:08:10AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * John W. Linville (linville@tuxdriver.com) 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 -
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-18 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-16 12:58 Add uninstall target to Makefile Martin Atukunda
2005-09-16 17:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-16 17:54 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-16 18:08 ` Chris Wright
2005-09-16 19:19 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-16 23:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-16 23:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-09-18 10:03 ` Martin Atukunda [this message]
[not found] ` <12c511ca0509161021249c89a9@mail.gmail.com>
2005-09-16 18:01 ` Junio C Hamano
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