Re: [Mingw-users] Make question.

[Paul S. <pa...@is...>]

Hello Henrik,

Henrik Stokseth <hst...@pr...> wrote on Saturday, December 09, 2000:

HS> hi! since the mingw32 distribution doesn't include gnu fileutils i had to
HS> come up with some other way to do a 'make uninstall' than '-rm
HS> $(UNINSTALL_FILES)'. to be short what i did was to make use of the $(foreach
HS> ...) function and $(subst ...) to take the list of files, substitute slashes
HS> with backslashes and add a del command before each filename. now i only have
HS> one problem: i have to add a newline character after each 'del
HS> $(UNINSTALL_FILE)' line. help is much appreciated!

    Fact that mingw doesn't come with fileutils is not reason to spend
time on such dirty workarounds, IMHO. Just install more complete gnu-win32
distribution and enjoy. http://www.mingw.org/links.shtml lists some of
such distibutions which are known to work ok.

HS> -help


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