[racket] Uninstalling Racket

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue Feb 15 05:12:52 EST 2011

5 hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> 
> One way to make uninstalling installs from source easy, and to get
> an additional benefit, is to use the "--prefix" option to
> "configure" to put a Racket installation into its own directory
> tree.

A far easier way (for unix platforms) is to *not* use `--prefix'.
This gets the tree to compile in-place, which you can then move to any
place in the file system, and when you want to uninstall it you can
just `rm -rf' the whole thing.

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