Assar Westerlund writes:
> Currently automake does not remove directories in `make uninstall' and
> I did not find any text regarding this in the GNU coding guidelines
> either. So what's the right thing to do here?
>
> a) always remove the directories
> b) just remove the directories that were created during `make install'
> c) remove the last level of directory if it's empty
> d) remove all the levels that are empty
>
> a) seems obviously wrong. b) requires keeping track. c) requires an
> unminstall-dirs. but d) almost seems to make sense.
>
> Any comments?
A package system like Solaris's pkg does not remove "shared" directories.
(not a) c) d); b) maybe, but what if a package installed later uses the
same dirs?).
That said, automake is not a package system. So, IMNSHO, 'make uninstall'
should not remove *any* dirs, just those files installed by 'make install'.
Package-specific dirs *may* be ok to remove.
Maybe GNU standards need to be more explicit on this topic.
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