Well then hello, Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@> wrote: |On 30/03/14 21:13, Werner LEMBERG wrote: |> Fixes for `uninstall' target. |> |> * Makefile.in (uninstall_dirs): Use `DESTDIR'. | |A couple of minor concerns here: [.] |2) Does DESTDIR have any real value, for an uninstall target? Its value |lies in staging binary packages; "rm -rf ..." is the simplest way to |clear a staging tree, (unless multiple packages are staged in a common |tree, perhaps, and only one is to be selectively discarded). The
I thought (so but found) the value was gaining the option of verifying that the `uninstall' target works properly. (Without (a) messing my /usr/local and (b) gaining too much knowledge about GNU autotools that is.) But the overall very best way is, generally speaking, maybe unfortunately, ?0[steffen@sherwood steffen]$ grep aclean .gitconfig aclean = clean -fxd --dry-run aclean-do = clean -fxd Ciao, --steffen
