[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49330] Stale files after make install

[Michael Godfrey]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49330>

                 Summary: Stale files after make install
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: godfrey
            Submitted on: Thu 13 Oct 2016 10:18:57 AM GMT
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Installation Failure
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Godfrey
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

In my most recent case of a dev build,
/usr/local/share/octave/4.3.0+/m/linear-algebra/gsvd.m
was left in the install even though gsvd.m had been moved.

This is a long-standing problem. The safest action would 
be for make install to "pre-clear" (rm -rf ...) all directories
down the root paths for the new installation.
This means,
rm -rf /usr/local/share/octave/4.3.0+/*
etc. ...
for example.
I cannot think for a way to reliably select the directories that
need to be cleared. So, doing all of them for the given version
seems the only safe choice.




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