From: David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make uninstall ?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:06:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR03MB54551F0513E238D17B03096B9BC60@SJ0PR03MB5455.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0tj60h1.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (Pankaj Jangid's message of "Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:05:06 +0530")
Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is there a 'make uninstall' for Emacs (v27?) or am I just not seeing it?
>>> Given that there can be significant changes from version to version of
>>> Emacs, a 'make uninstall' would be helpful to ensure you do not leave
>>> cruft lying around that might get sucked into a future compilation or
>>> execution of Emacs (say, an old lisp file).
>>
>> If you plan on having several non-OS-distributed versions of Emacs, then
>> I'd suggest not saying "make install" at all. Emacs runs fine from
>> wherever you've compiled it.
>
> I use --prefix arg in configure to install into $HOME/.local. I keep two
> worktrees - one for emacs-27 and one for master. To use one, I just do a
> ‘make install’ inside that worktree. I keep both the builds ready so
> install doesn’t take much time.
>
> Uninstall => just ignore $HOME/.local. :-)
Hmm. Yeah, I forgot about GNU Stow which is basically what you're
doing and suggesting.
--
David Masterson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-15 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-15 5:24 make uninstall ? David Masterson
2020-12-15 5:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-15 6:35 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-15 6:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-15 7:23 ` David Masterson
2020-12-15 8:15 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-15 7:06 ` David Masterson [this message]
2020-12-15 14:33 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-16 1:21 ` David Masterson
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