Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:40:01PM CET: > recently, I run "make uninstall" with a package I previously installed > by "make install". > > The package heavily uses the feature > foodir = ... > foo_HEADERS = ... > and thus created many directories. After the uninstall, the directories > are empty. I imagined that "make uninstall" could remove them in such case. > > Why this is not working?
Feature: the directories it would remove are not part of the package. This is arguable, but it would be very surprising if `make uninstall' removed /usr/local/bin which was previously set up with special permissions and owner. For nonstandard directories, this might be even more arguable. But then again, removing empty directories from a tree is trivial, and, as the comment you quoted says: > Note that `uninstall' is not meant as a replacement for a real > packaging tool. Regards, Ralf
