deinstall problem (reprise)

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Monday 31 January 2005 04:04 pm, Lane wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I just noticed that the mythtv port I'm working on uses 'make
> uninstall' instead of 'make deinstall' in several of the generated
> Makefiles.
>
> How can I instruct the port Makefile to call 'make uninstall' for an
> indeterminate number of Makefiles?

Don't, they are not related.  Make uninstall is meant to be used
only when you have no packaging system.  In general anything
you want to be de-installed goes into pkg-plist.  Look at other
ports that are similar to the one you are setting up and see how
they do it is my advice.

-Mike
>
> See ... the original program uses 'qmake' to generate the Makefile(s)
> then it uses GNU_CONFIGURE to compile everything.  So I don't know
> how many Makefile(s) will exist because various parameters will
> change that.
>
> Sheesh!  This is more complex than I thought it would be :)
>
> lane
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