Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 20:59 -0700, Nigel Tao wrote:
> > On 4/9/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco comcast net> wrote:
> > > support 'make uninstall'
> >
> > Should this be an upcoming Gnome Goal??
>
> That's pretty hard to make a goal of it, as this can break over time. A
> tinderbox doing nothing but continuous 'make distcheck's would be of
> more use, it could automatically notify the maintainer when the
> build/(un)install is broken.

I already put it on the GnomeGoals page.  Tinderboxing it is
interesting.  That makes builds a few times slower, but that
should not be a real problem.  Of course, this all makes sense
after we get a tinderbox successfully building all modules first.

Guys, keep an eye on this wonderful page:

  http://jhbuild.bxlug.be/

and do inspect what's failing and try to report/fix it.


> Cheers,
>    Ruben

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