From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
Martin Atukunda <matlads@dsmagic.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add uninstall target to Makefile
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:08:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050916180810.GK8041@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050916175402.GC22825@tuxdriver.com>
* 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.
thanks,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 18:12 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 [this message]
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
[not found] ` <12c511ca0509161021249c89a9@mail.gmail.com>
2005-09-16 18:01 ` Junio C Hamano
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