Uninstall

[Amilcar do Carmo Lucas]

On Saturday 20 February 2010 08:15:57 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 20.02.10 00:00:51, Amilcar do Carmo Lucas wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I issued a "sudo make uninstall" on both kdevelop and kdevplatform.
> > Both seamed to work fine, but ...
> 
> > These file were left behind:
> You need to keep in mind that doing a make uninstall after an svn update
> can leave stuff behind. The reason is that the cmake files might have
> dropped targets completely (the kdev_starter utility for example) and
> hence a make uninstall run after the svn up will automatically re-run
> cmake (due to changed files) and then uninstall what it knows (which
> leaves out any targets deleted meanwhile).
> 
> Additionally you seem to have switched installation prefixes, initially
> using /usr, now using /usr/local. Thats why all kind of stuff is still
> left in /usr/bin, /usr/include, /usr/lib etc.
> 
> Regarding non-deletion of directories, thats something you'll have to
> take up with kde-buildsystem or the cmake developers.
> 
> Andreas, who usually installs into a dedicated prefix that he can just
> rm -rf.
Thanks, that was it, wrong install prefix. For some reason on my system it 
defaults to /usr/local instead of /usr.


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Amilcar Lucas
KDevelop developer/webmaster