From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2003-03-14T14:07:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby newbie uninstall question? -> GNU stow

Use GNU stow (available from your friendly neighbourhood gnu archive).

basically, do

cd widget-0.1

./configure
make
make install PREFIX=/usr/local/stow/widget0.1

it gets copied into the stow directory.

then cd to /usr/local/stow, and do stow widget0.1

what happens is symlinks get built in /usr/local to point into
the stow directory. It's a one-line to uninstall. Doing a ls -l will
tell you what package a file came from. Beautiful.

I haven't tried it with ruby install.rb --prefix= but I will. I like  to
keep track of where things on my system come from.

Cheers,
Sam

Quoteing eblanton@cs.purdue.edu, on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:00:17PM +0900:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:22:38 GMT, Gabriel Emerson wrote:
> > You won't find a lot of 'uninstall' targets for Make, I'm afraid.  It's
> > generally risky to do, and probably not the job for the programmer of the
> > application.  That's just the way Unix tends to be.
> 
> Most applications that use automake actually have an uninstall ... as
> automake takes care of writing uninstall rules that work (most of the
> time, heh) for you.
> 
> Ethan
> 
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