Re: `make uninstall` does not uninstall the chicken-do manpage

[John Cowan]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/rmdir and my own Windows experience say that Windows rmdir behaves the same as Posix rmdir.  A long time ago I used a system in which if you deleted an empty directory foo, all its files became children of foo's parent, but that idea never became popular.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 3:02 PM Lassi Kortela <lassi@lassi.io> wrote:

> Indeed, that does the trick on *nix, even though we won't be able to
> catch rmdir errors in case it fails on empty directories, but I think
> that's not too bad in this case.

Agreed. It will just write an error message on stderr in that case.

> Any idea how to do something equivalent on Windows?

A web search shows that Windows also has an "rmdir" command and it
should work the same way as the Unix command for this purpose, but I
haven't tested it:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/rmdir