From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: Add uninstall target to Makefile Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:54:03 -0400 Message-ID: <20050916175402.GC22825@tuxdriver.com> References: <20050916125814.GA8084@igloo.ds.co.ug> <7vfys5ndor.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Martin Atukunda , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 16 19:58:51 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGKTM-0004NH-AK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:58:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161215AbVIPR57 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:57:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161216AbVIPR57 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:57:59 -0400 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([24.172.12.4]:27909 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161215AbVIPR56 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:57:58 -0400 Received: from bilbo.tuxdriver.com (azure.tuxdriver.com [24.172.12.5]) by ra.tuxdriver.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8GHs7Rs023329 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:54:07 -0400 Received: from bilbo.tuxdriver.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bilbo.tuxdriver.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8GHs6IP004462; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:54:06 -0400 Received: (from linville@localhost) by bilbo.tuxdriver.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j8GHs434004461; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:54:04 -0400 To: Junio C Hamano Mail-Followup-To: Junio C Hamano , Martin Atukunda , git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vfys5ndor.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4-gr0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4-gr0 (2005-06-05) on ra.tuxdriver.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:08:04AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Martin Atukunda writes: > > > Add the uninstall target to the Makefile. > > 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? -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com