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Re: Sligthly OT: Compiling a given Autoconf-based package on variousUNIX Systems



On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Ira Abramov wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> > If you happen to have access to a UNIX configuration,which is not Linux,
> > and can see if it works there, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> I wish I could help, but:
>
> > I suggest you use the "--prefix=$HOME/fc-solve" option to configure so you
> > can later cleanly remove it.
>
> this is one of those little things that annoy me... why do so few people
> write a "make uninstall" makefile entry?

And even if they have written it: would you have trusted it to do as
instruted? And that nothing will go worng?

Limiting the damage to your (or a test user's) home dir is something
useful...

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir




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