GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool

9.8. Uninstalling

Having installed all these files to '/usr/local', it might be difficult to remember which particular files belong to each installation. In the case of an executable, the uninstallation requires no magic; when uninstalling a Libtool library, however, all the files that comprise the implementation of the Libtool library in question must be uninstalled:

 $ libtool rm -f /usr/local/bin/hello rm -f /usr/local/bin/hello $ libtool rm -f /usr/local/lib/libhello.la rm -f /usr/local/lib/libhello.la /usr/local/lib/libhello.sl.0.0 \ /usr/local/lib/libhello.sl.0 /usr/local/lib/libhello.sl \ /usr/local/lib/libhello.a $ libtool rm -f /usr/local/lib/libtrim.la rm -f /usr/local/lib/libtrim.la /usr/local/lib/libtrim.sl.0.0 \ /usr/local/lib/libtrim.sl.0 ...