Csaba Raduly, on Sunday, May 19, 2019 04:37 AM, wrote... >On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 4:57 AM Jack wrote: >> >> On 5/18/19 9:24 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: >> > How do I uninstall the installation that I created with the building of >> > gcc6? I did a search on duckduckgo for, >> > >> > cygwin how to uninstall gcc after building it >> > >> > and found nothing that could help me. Right now I have two installs of >> > gcc: v7.4.and v6.4.0. > >That is not necessarily a problem. "Hand-built" GCC usually gets >installed into /usr/local (so g++-6 is /usr/local/bin/g++), whereas >the built-in GCC is installed into /usr (so the default GCC 7.4 is >/usr/bin/g++). Unfortunately, whether one or the other is picked >depends on your PATH. > >I tend to configure my hand-built GCC with --program-suffix= (e.g. GCC >6 with --program-suffix=-6, so the name of the compiler ends up being >g++-6). Good to know for the next one. :-( I should have used this on my run of configure. It would have matched what Bedrockdb make was calling.
>Unfortunately, gcc doesn't support "make uninstall". A workaround is >to make a fake install with "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/usr/local" and >then make a list of all the files under that directory, remove the >"/tmp" and delete the files based on the list, something like I started from scratch. I had a nice cygwin setup with Xfce, which I have to go back and set it back up. But, that's easier because I know what I am doing here. ;-) Thanks for all your help. josé -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
