What's the opposite of 'make install', i.e. how do you uninstall a library in Linux?

Question

While running

./configure --prefix=/mingw 

on a MinGW/MSYS system for a library I had previously run

\'./configure --pref         


        

Answer 1

There is no standard unfortunately, this is one of the perils of installing from source. Some Makefiles will include an "uninstall", so

make uninstall

from the source directory may work. Otherwise, it may be a matter of manually undoing whatever the make install did.

make clean usually just cleans up the source directory - removing generated/compiled files and the like, probably not what you're after.