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For fun, I compiled and installed gcc 4.7.2 in ~/build, which contains bin, doc, lib, include, man, share, et al. directories, all of which are added to the appropriate environment variables.
Now I want to remove it, so it can stop shadowing my v4.4.7 /usr/bin/gcc with all its associated libraries and whatnot (whatever they may be), but, of course, the GCC make files
offer no uninstall target, and find ~/bin -iname "\*gcc*" turns up quite a bit.
Is my only option to set the prefix to some temporary directory, run the installation again, then use than new set of files as a guide for deleting the old ones? Or is there a better way?
This is on Springdale Linux 6.4 (Pisa), kernel 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64, and I do not have root access.
tsbertalan
Posted 2013-10-22T16:24:44.503
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25303928/how-to-uninstall-gcc-installed-from-source || http://askubuntu.com/questions/101471/how-to-uninstall-gcc-4-6-2 – Ciro Santilli 新疆改造中心法轮功六四事件 – 2015-06-10T12:49:07.823
Did you run a
make install? From your question it sounds like everything is in subdirectories of~/buildand deleting that dir is all you need. – terdon – 2013-10-22T16:28:12.657That is true (the compiler executable for instance is at
~/build/bin/gcc) but, since I don't have root access on this machine, I use this directory extensively to install software for my user. Clearly I should have put the GCC install in its own subdirectory to begin with, but I did not. – tsbertalan – 2013-10-23T17:07:16.150