--- Amish Mehta amish@ownmail.com wrote:
Generally, there is also a command 'make uninstall' but it all depends on Makefile. So you should keep Makefile in case you plan to uninstall the software installed by make. Its like 'uninstall.isu' files on windows.
No. Makefiles have a lot of uses in project management. Try to read up on tools like make, automake, autoconf, etc. There is a book called the "The Autobook" which describes all the tools used for project management in the GNU world. I think it is available on http://www.andamooka.org/ Or you can simply search on google ...
Some Makefile's do have the "uninstall" target, in which case a "make uninstall" will do the job. But the best thing is to do "make -n install" or "make -n" and dump the output into a file. The -n option simply simulates all the actions that make will take, without actually doing anything. you can use this file to figure out which files got installed where on your system.
SameerDS.
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