`make uninstall' and GCC

[Ben Elliston]

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