On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:21:47AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, David Aitcheson wrote: > > > > > Also missed was: > > > > /usr/local/lib/xastir and the contained fcc-get files > > > > /usr/local/share/xastir and some files within > > > > /usr/local/share/doc/xastir and some files within > > > > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/xastir* files > > > > Which is not to bad to have to chase down and clean up. > > > > There you have it, some feed back for the maintainer of the > > makefile and for the wiki. > > This was all very interesting to me as I've _never_ done a "make > uninstall" that I can recall. It didn't even cross my mind that our > Makefiles were set up for it. Kind'a funny.
Uninstall targets are inserted automagically by automake, which sets them up to undo any installation it is set up to do. > Tom: Should we spend some time to try to clear up the uninstall > stuff and document it on the Wiki and the text docs? Since it's not > used much, I could go either way on it. It might be good to > document the manual uninstall at least. I don't think so. The issue here is that David did a CVS update between his make install and make uninstall, and the set of files installed by xastir changed between the time he did the install and the time he did the uninstall. Since the uninstall targets are generated by automake to undo what make install does, and what "make install" does had changed by the cvs update, some files were orphaned. Had he uninstalled using the identical code that he'd installed, the files would not have been missed. I do not believe that make uninstall ever deletes directories, so that's expected behavior. If someone wants to document the uninstall process, have at it. They merely need to petition one of the wiki managers (Curt, Chuck, or some Russo guy) to add them to the "wikieditor" group --- our wiki was being vandalized on a daily basis, so it is no longer possible to just create a user ID and start editing, you have to get a human to set your permissions up. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." -- R. Bach _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
