[gentoo-user] {OT} "make uninstall" with no rule

[gentoo-user] {OT} "make uninstall" with no rule

[Grant]

I'm just now learning how to compile and install manually.  I
installed makemkv-1.4.1 manually and now I found an ebuild so I'd like
to install the latest version via the ebuild, but I get:

# make uninstall
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.

The makefile doesn't mention uninstall.  Should I just install over
the current installation via the ebuild?  Is there any way to do this
cleanly?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} "make uninstall" with no rule

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Grant<emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just now learning how to compile and install manually.  I
> installed makemkv-1.4.1 manually and now I found an ebuild so I'd like
> to install the latest version via the ebuild, but I get:
>
> # make uninstall
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
>
> The makefile doesn't mention uninstall.  Should I just install over
> the current installation via the ebuild?  Is there any way to do this
> cleanly?

Hopefully your manually-installed version was installed to /usr/local
and the ebuild version will be installed to /usr ... once the ebuild
is installed, check out the files list and then manually delete those
same files from the /usr/local hierarchy. That's what I would do
anyway :) If you did not install the original to /usr/local then yeah
I think just having it overwrite the files should be okay in this
case.

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "make uninstall" with no rule

[Harry Putnam]

Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm just now learning how to compile and install manually.  I
> installed makemkv-1.4.1 manually and now I found an ebuild so I'd like
> to install the latest version via the ebuild, but I get:
>
> # make uninstall
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
>
> The makefile doesn't mention uninstall.  Should I just install over
> the current installation via the ebuild?  Is there any way to do this
> cleanly?

When I've wanted to remove manually built packages... I've rerun
make install like this:

 make install >../<package>_install.log 2>&1

Then from the install log you can see what has been installed and
remove it by hand.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "make uninstall" with no rule

[Grant]

>> I'm just now learning how to compile and install manually.  I
>> installed makemkv-1.4.1 manually and now I found an ebuild so I'd like
>> to install the latest version via the ebuild, but I get:
>>
>> # make uninstall
>> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
>>
>> The makefile doesn't mention uninstall.  Should I just install over
>> the current installation via the ebuild?  Is there any way to do this
>> cleanly?
>
> When I've wanted to remove manually built packages... I've rerun
> make install like this:
>
>  make install >../<package>_install.log 2>&1
>
> Then from the install log you can see what has been installed and
> remove it by hand.

That worked brilliantly, thanks a lot.

- Grant