Re: [Adonthell-general] how about using checkinstall instead of having sudo make install ?

[Kai Sterker]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:20 AM, shirish शिरीष <address@hidden> wrote:

> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall
>
> Please lemme know what the devs. think about it. If there is support
> and it's a good thing then would change it in
> http://adonthell.berlios.de/doc/index.php/Development:Compiling in
> both ways to build the engine.

Well, sudo make install is guaranteed to work, while sudo checkinstall
requires additional software to do its job. And you can always do sudo
make uninstall that should reverse the effect of make install.

It's a nice tool, however, just not what you'd want to use during
normal development. So not sure if it should be featured on the wiki.
Might be a nice addition to the INSTALL and README shipped with source
tarballs, as that is what will be used by endusers that might want to
get rid of stuff again long after they got rid of the source tarball
and build directory.

So thanks for bringing this to the attention of the list!

Kai