[GNC] Uninstall GC

[John Ralls]

No, cmake/cmake_uninstall.cmake.in is a source file so that's your source directory.

try
  locate install_manifest.txt

to find your build directory.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On May 3, 2019, at 1:07 PM, Dennis Powless <dpowless517 at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> dennis at dennisLaptop1:~$ locate cmake_uninstall.cmake
> /home/dennis/.local/share/Trash/files/gnucash-maint/cmake/
> cmake_uninstall.cmake.in
> /home/dennis/Applications/cmake_uninstall.cmake
> /home/dennis/Applications/gnucash-3.1/cmake/cmake_uninstall.cmake.in
> 
> Can I then run the cmake uninstall from this location?
> 
> d
> 
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:40 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> John,
>> 
>> Won't that simply remove the source directories. With that prefix Dennis
>> has
>> installed under /home/dennis/.local. If the build directory is under
>> ~/Applications/gnucash-3.1 then he will lose the manifest by using rm  -rf
>> on the source directory.
>> 
>> If he can locate the original build directory then issuing make uninstall
>> from a terminal open in that directory. I have adopted the practice of
>> putting the build directory inside the source directory and retaining both
>> (I once found that the make uninstall procedure seems to reference the
>> source directories not simply the manifest file or the build directories
>> but
>> I have never checked this out fully) until after I have removed a build. It
>> doesn't cause any problems and keeps everything you need for an uninstall
>> together.
>> 
>> Dennis
>> Your build directory is unlikely to be gnucash-3.1, that is most likely the
>> source directory. Where it is located is the directory from which you
>> originally executed the cmake command since you used absolute addressing to
>> the source. It may be  inside gnucash-3.1 if you used the mkdir <build>
>> and
>> cd <build> commands from the terminal open atgnucash-3.1 before issuing the
>> make command. Here <build> is a generic notation for a filename for a build
>> file. It will have whatever name you gave it at the time. The attached
>> screenshot gives you the directory structure and files in the build
>> directory note the dist_manifest.txt and install_manifest.txt. These will
>> be
>> present in your build directory.
>> Selection_009.png
>> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t375329/Selection_009.png>
>> 
>> David Cousens
>> 
>> 
>> 
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