Re: make uninstall ?

[Pankaj Jangid]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:
>
>> Is there a 'make uninstall' for Emacs (v27?) or am I just not seeing it?
>> Given that there can be significant changes from version to version of
>> Emacs, a 'make uninstall' would be helpful to ensure you do not leave
>> cruft lying around that might get sucked into a future compilation or
>> execution of Emacs (say, an old lisp file).
>
> If you plan on having several non-OS-distributed versions of Emacs, then
> I'd suggest not saying "make install" at all.  Emacs runs fine from
> wherever you've compiled it.

I use --prefix arg in configure to install into $HOME/.local. I keep two
worktrees - one for emacs-27 and one for master. To use one, I just do a
‘make install’ inside that worktree. I keep both the builds ready so
install doesn’t take much time.

Uninstall => just ignore $HOME/.local. :-)