Chapter 13. Installing and Uninstalling Configured Packages
Have you ever seen a package where, once built, you were expected to keep the build tree around forever, and always cd there before running the tool? You might have to cast your mind way, way back to the bad old days of 1988 to remember such a horrible thing.
The GNU Autotools provide a canned solution to this problem. Although not without flaws, they do provide a reasonable and easy-to-use framework. This chapter discusses the GNU Autotools installation model, how to convince automake to install files where you want them, and finally this chapter concludes with some information about uninstalling, including a brief discussion of its flaws.
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