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Deleting previous builds

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oBFusCATed:
The uninstall rule uses the current build folder config to do the uninstall.
So if you're at version x, but you've installed version y. You might be out-of-luck if you want reliable uninstall.

Jenna:

--- Quote from: BlueHazzard on July 20, 2018, 09:34:21 pm ---
--- Quote ---If you've not used a separate prefix for all of them, but you've used the default of /usr/local, your doomed. They cannot be removed.
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Is there no uninstall rule? That's a shame...

[EDIT:] this might help https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1506462/what-files-did-make-install-copy-and-where

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It's there, of course, but:

--- Quote from: oBFusCATed on July 20, 2018, 09:39:40 pm ---The uninstall rule uses the current build folder config to do the uninstall.
So if you're at version x, but you've installed version y. You might be out-of-luck if you want reliable uninstall.

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If you make an change to the build-system you are probably lost.
You have to run uninstall before making changes or use the --prefix parameter when running configure to install in a seperate (if possible user-) folder to easily remove all files and not to clutter system folder.
No sudo needed and recommended not to use it, or you clutter your system folders with test-builds.
There have been several posts about the same problem in our forum.

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