Re: make uninstall

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: make uninstall
Date: 01:47 on 09 Aug 2005
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:47:58AM -0400, Chet Hosey wrote:
> As are build systems in general -- you'd think that given the amount of
> software written in the computing world, making tools that could easily
> and successfully build and install software and do things like recognize
> which files should be rebuilt after touching a header would be a higher
> priority. Nooooo, let's use automake to build the configure script to
> generate the Makefiles that recursively invoke make to spackle over the
> problem -- that way when something breaks, it's REALLY hateful!

As the maintainer of a system that uses such a style, I cannot express my
hatred for it as I fear it would destroy the world.


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