Assar Westerlund writes:
> b) just remove the directories that were created during `make install'
If you `make install' twice then the second time the directories aren't
created anymore, so the `make uninstall' would not attempt to remove them.
Not good.
> c) remove the last level of directory if it's empty
That's not quite it either. If I install something into
/opt/foo-0.99/{bin,lib,include} and then it only removes the bin, lib, and
include parts, then it's arguably being less than helpful.
> d) remove all the levels that are empty
That would certainly be the easiest. Perhaps once could make provisions
that certain "standard" directories (e.g., /usr/local) shouldn't be
removed, although I don't see a reason for keeping them around. It was
objected that other, badly packaged software might blindly assume that
some standard directory exists, but how hard is it to `mkdir /usr/local'
if you get `/usr/local: no such file or directory'?
The added beauty of this approach would be that `rminstalldirs' would be
to `rmdir -p' what `mkinstalldirs' is now to `mkdir -p'. A possible
(though perhaps not perfect) implementation of rminstalldirs is attached
for your perusal.
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#! /bin/sh
# rminstalldirs -- remove empty directory hierarchy
# Author: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Created: 2000-05-15
# EXPERIMENTAL!
errstatus=0
for arg in ${1+"$@"} ; do
path=`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's,/$,,' | tr -s '/'`
case "$path" in
-* ) path="./$path" ;;
esac
while test -n "$path" && test x"$path" != x"." ; do
if test -d "$path" ; then
if test x"`ls -A "$path"`" = x ; then
echo "rmdir $path"
rmdir "$path" > /dev/null 2>&1 || errstatus=$?
else
# $path is not empty
break
fi
else # not a directory
errstatus=1
fi
if test $errstatus -ne 0 ; then break; fi
path=`echo "$path" | sed -e 's,/[^/]*$,,'`
done
done
exit $errstatus
