Re: make uninstall ?

[David Masterson]

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