On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:41:53AM +0100, Dusan Kolar wrote:
I use tar.bz2 binary distribution of GHC compiler as my distro does not use any supported packaging system. Everything is fine, but... I want to install the new version of the GHC compiler. Is there any (easy) way, how to get information about what was copied and where during installation? (./configure; make install) There seems to be no uninstall target in the Makefile. :-( And I want to uninstall the previous version of the compiler.
Is it safe to delete files/folders just from /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6.1 and /usr/local/bin/gh* ?
Probably. At least you installed it in /usr/local, not /usr... For future reference, this is what GNU stow is for: you do $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename when you build the binaries and then use the stow command to put appropriate symlinks in to /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib etc etc for the version you want to use. This way you can have several versions installed in parallel in /usr/local/stow/ghc-6.6.1 /usr/local/stow/ghc-6.8 etc etc, but have one default version symlinked into your $PATH. Very useful... Phil -- http://www.kantaka.co.uk/ .oOo. public key: http://www.kantaka.co.uk/gpg.txt