Re: uninstall does not call its hook

[Steve M. Robbins]

Hi again,

Please discard my previous message.  I muddled it up.
(It turns out that "distcheck" lets you leave one file installed,
but will complain if you leave two or more).  Here is the correct
bug report.



I used the install-data-hook to install some extra stuff.  Then "make
distcheck" complains that there are "files left after uninstall".  So
I added an "uninstall-hook" to remove them, but the uninstall hook is
never executed.

Here's an example Makefile.am fragment.  A complete example is attached.
I discovered that I can use "uninstall-local" rather than the hook,
and it works.

-Steve


install-data-hook:
        touch $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/bar1
        touch $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/bar2

uninstall-hook:
        rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/bar?


 

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