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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: {OT} "make uninstall" with no rule
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:09:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3aa5e8n2.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 49bf44f10906120902k5afb962ap8eeb4b16cae5a150@mail.gmail.com

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.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-12 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 16:02 [gentoo-user] {OT} "make uninstall" with no rule Grant
2009-06-12 16:08 ` Paul Hartman
2009-06-12 16:09 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2009-06-12 18:18   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant

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