Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-08 Thread William Pursell
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system > for testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been > running the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory > of the respective application. I was curious as to how

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for > testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running the > 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the respective > application. I was curious as to

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Miles Bader
"Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > make uninstall is rarely supported and most often doesn't work. There are certainly a fair number of packages that don't correctly support "make uninstall", but I'm not sure it's accurate to say it's "rarely supported" or "most often it doesn't wo

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > make uninstall is rarely supported and most often doesn't work. If you want > something similiar, but generally has much less trouble, you might want to > look at stow (debian package: stow, upstream url: > http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) > Rarely supported meaning by developers? I gue

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 06 October 2007 21:18:29 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for > testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running > the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the > respectiv

The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the respective application. I was curious as to how effective this command was. It s