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Re: `make uninstall' and GCC
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au dot ibm dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:50:21 +1100
- Subject: Re: `make uninstall' and GCC
- Organization: IBM Australia
- References: <20050314160518.2E1D9416118@ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com>
Sam Lauber wrote:
The gccinstall info says that `make uninstall' would open
a can of worms. I don't get it. Why?
I suspect because it's tested so infrequently and may not remove the complete set of
files (or files belonging to other packages installed under the same prefix). Most
people would be installing GCC via a packaging system these days, so make uninstall
is used even less.
Ben