other/9346: make uninstall does not remove all files

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Fri Jan 17 11:36:00 GMT 2003


On 17 Jan 2003 drepper@redhat.com wrote:

> After running 'make install' the use of 'make uninstall' does not
> remove all the files.  In the $prefix/bin directly the following files
> are left:

"make uninstall" is documented (in the install manual) to be unsupported.  
We should, however, either support it properly (removing that
documentation and the corresponding statement in sourcebuild.texi that
front ends need not do anything in their <lang>.uninstall hooks, and
documenting the target for users), as a target in the GNU Coding
Standards, or unsupport it properly and remove the bitrotten rules and
deliberately not support this part of the GNU Coding Standards (as with
"make dist").

So either way there is a bug here: the presence of bitrotten "uninstall"  
rules.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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