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

Make can tell you what it knows and what it will do. Suppose you have an "install" target, which executes commands like:

cp  /

In your generic rules, add:

uninstall :; MAKEFLAGS= ${MAKE} -j1 -spinf $(word 1,${MAKEFILE_LIST}) install \
              | awk '/^cp /{dest=$NF; for (i=NF; --i>0;) {print dest"/"$i}}' \
              | xargs rm -f

A similar trick can do a generic make clean.