Re: `make uninstall` does not uninstall the chicken-do manpage

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 22:02:18 +0300 Lassi Kortela <lassi@lassi.io> wrote:

>> Indeed, that does the trick on *nix, even though we won't be able to
>> catch rmdir errors in case it fails on empty directories, but I think
>> that's not too bad in this case.
>
> Agreed. It will just write an error message on stderr in that case.

I think that's fine.  Checking & deleting would be subject to race
conditions, and that would be much worse IMO.  Since we've managed to
survive all these years without deleting those directories, I don't
think it'll hurt to keep them in very exceptional cases. :-)

>> Any idea how to do something equivalent on Windows?
>
> A web search shows that Windows also has an "rmdir" command and it
> should work the same way as the Unix command for this purpose, but I
> haven't tested it:
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/rmdir

Is `true' also available?  I could not find it in the left pane of that
page, and searching for `true' gave me a huge amount of unrelated
results.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22046780/whats-the-windows-command-shell-equivalent-of-bashs-true-command
has some creative suggestions, but I haven't tested them (I don't have a
Windows system around).

All the best.
Mario
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