Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:27:43 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Radhika Sambamurti <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: to uninstall source Message-ID: <20011030092743.D592@jonc.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20011029150141.62392.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com>; from radhika_narendran@yahoo.com on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:01:41AM -0800 References: <20011029150141.62392.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:01:41AM -0800, Radhika Sambamurti wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running freebsd 4.4. I recently built gnumeric from
> source with a ./configure
> I would like to uninstall it, but nowhere in the README or
> INSTALL files does it say how to.
> Any idea on how one can remove a source build.
If you build things by hand, you're just going to have to look thru'
the binaries, libraries, config-files that got installed on a particular
date.
It's very tedious and painful. That's why you should use the FreeBSD
ports sytem to build 3rd party stuff, uninstalling in this case would
as simple as invoking pkg_delete.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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