Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

[Lars Hecking]

> If it's an automake'd package, or it follows the GNU coding
> guidelines, it'll mkinstalldirs the directories.
 
 mkinstalldirs does not keep track of what it creates. It does not
 care whether part of the path to be created exists already, it just
 mkdir's the missing dirs.

> But it does create the directories (if they don't exist already).  I
> kind of like the idea of `make install uninstall' leaving everything
> as it was before, but that might be hard to do.
 
 Not possible, unless automake creates an install log somehow. But automake
 is not a package system (damn, I'm repeating myself :) a couple of years
 ago, I made a patch for GNU install to log all installed files. It was
 rejected with the very same argument :)

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