Re: makefile uninstall somewhat aggressive?

[Hugh Sasse]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Hugh Sasse wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Jeff Kingston wrote:
> 
> > Is there a problem with the current arrangement?  I would prefer
> > that LIBDIR be always installed and uninstalled as a unit, to
> > ensure consistency between its various parts.
> 
> Conventionally among GNU stuff LIBDIR is /usr/local/lib, and 
> if anyone installed it there, they'd be rather shocked after an
> uninstall.

I've thought of another solution that avoids assumptions about GNUishness.

--- makefile    2005-08-24 00:45:25.000000000 +0100
+++ makefile.new2       2006-03-06 10:17:25.992908000 +0000
@@ -67,11 +67,14 @@
 #                assumed to exist.                                            #
 #                                                                             #
 #      LIBDIR    Directory where Lout's libraries go.  This directory will    #
-#                be created (but its parent must exist already).              #
+#                be created (but its parent must exist already). It must      #
+#                NOT exist already: it will be removed during                 #
+#                `make uninstall`                                             #
 #                                                                             #
 #      DOCDIR    Directory where the documents describing the Lout system     #
 #                (written in Lout) go.  This directory will be created (but   #
-#                its parent must exist already).                              #
+#                its parent must exist already).  It must NOT exist already:  #
+#                it will be removed during `make uninstall`                   #
 #                                                                             #
 #      MANDIR    Directory where the lout and prg2lout online manual entries  #
 #                (in nroff -man) go.  This directory is assumed to exist.     #
@@ -342,7 +345,7 @@
        chmod 755 $(BINDIR)/prg2lout
        @echo ""
        @echo "(b) Installing library files into LIBDIR $(LIBDIR)"
-       mkdir $(LIBDIR)
+       mkdir $(LIBDIR) || echo $(LIBDIR) already exists && exit -1
        chmod 755 $(LIBDIR)
        @echo ""
        mkdir $(LIBDIR)/$(LIBINCL)
@@ -393,6 +396,7 @@
 installdoc:
        @echo ""
        @echo "Creating DOCDIR $(DOCDIR) and copying documentation into it"
+       test -d $(DOCDIR) && echo $(DOCDIR) already exists && exit -1
        $(RCOPY) doc $(DOCDIR)
        chmod 755 $(DOCDIR)
        chmod 755 $(DOCDIR)/*

> > 
> > Jeff Kingston
> > 
> 
>         Hugh
>