[GRASS5] [gordon.keith@marine.csiro.au: [GRASSLIST:1295] Grass 5b10 make clean]

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In case you all didn't see this.... Can I make the recommendation that
we remove all of the "rm" statements from Makefile.in that work on the
install directories? If we want an uninstall routine, I think it needs
a list of all the installed files (and where they were installed), so
the process can be done safely. "clean", "distclean" and "mostlyclean"
should only affect the build directory.

My 2¢

----- Forwarded message from Gordon Keith <gordon.keith@marine.csiro.au> -----

Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:59:08 +1100
From: Gordon Keith <gordon.keith@marine.csiro.au>
Subject: [GRASSLIST:1295] Grass 5b10 make clean
To: grasslist@baylor.edu
Organization: CSIRO Marine Research

I am trying to install Grass 5 beta 10 on an solaris intel box.

I was unable to install from the binaries so I downloaded the source and
tried to build it.

I followed the instructions and did a "./configure" and "make install".
The error.log contained a lot of entries so I decided to "make clean"
and "make all" to try to track down the error messages.

Since make install requires root access I was doing this as root.

Can you image my horror when "make clean" flashed up:

/bin/sh -c "rm -rf /usr/local/bin/ 2>/dev/null ; true"

and proceeded to do the same for a few other important directories such as:
/usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include, /usr/local/man, etc.

Can I suggest (in _*extrememly strong*_ terms) that wiping out the
entire development environment (gcc, make etc) is NOT what most people
mean by make clean.

Please make it a little safer for newbies to play with grass.

Regards
Gordon

----- End forwarded message -----

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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>

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Hi Eric

"Eric G . Miller" wrote:

In case you all didn't see this.... Can I make the recommendation
that we remove all of the "rm" statements from Makefile.in that work
on the install directories? If we want an uninstall routine, I think
it needs a list of all the installed files (and where they were
installed), so the process can be done safely. "clean", "distclean"
and "mostlyclean" should only affect the build directory.

I agree that the "clean" targets should not effect the installation
directories, but our problem is that the build directories and the
installation directories are currently the same by default.

However, I don't think removing the rm commands is the answer since that
would mean the user has to figure out what directories to delete on
their own if they do want to do an equivalent of a "make clean", which
is inconvenient and can also get them in trouble.

If you agree with the proposal I posted earlier than I should be able to
get a Makefile working in a few days that will separate the build and
installation directories. Then the clean targets will not touch the
installation directories, only a "make uninstall". What do you think?

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