[newbie] Uninstalling programs compiled from source

[Marv Boyes]

Hello, all. I have so far had absolutely rotten luck getting much of 
anything I've compiled from source to work on my Mandrake 9.2 machine. 
Luckily, I've either a) decided I can live without the latest 
bleeding-edge versions of my favorite apps; or b) been able to find 
Mdk-ready RPMs on rpm.pbone.net and/or RPMFind for most of the stuff I 
want to use. It really bugs me that I can't use 90% of what I've tried 
to install from source, as compiling and installing software the way _I_ 
want it was one of the big draws of Linux in the first place; but I've 
read everything I can find on the subject and still haven't the vaguest 
notion of what I might be doing wrong.

Anyway, my question (there IS a question) is this-- is there a 
convenient way to uninstall programs I've installed, or (more often) 
tried to install, from source? There's probably a lot of crap strewn all 
over my hard drive, and I'd like to be able to clean some of it up. I'd 
also like to know for any future failures to run things I've compiled 
from source.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance.
Marv
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