[racket] Uninstalling Racket

From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan (vu3rdd at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 15 11:46:01 EST 2011

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.

-- 
  Ramakrishnan



Posted on the users mailing list.