[Gimp-developer] why do I need babl to UNINSTALL gimp?

[Owen]

> Owen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just wanted to clean out multiple gimp installations and went to
>>> uninstall a gimp cvs build.
>>>
>>> make uninstall
>>
>>
>>
>> I am not that good at reading Makefiles, but I don't think uninstall
>> does anything and you are just doing a make?
>>
>> Hence the requirement for a newer babl
>>
>
> Thanks Owen, that would explain the error but I thought make reported
> something like "no rule for target uninstall" if it got fed crap.
>
> maybe there's some default target in the gimp Makefiles that matches a
> non existent target. :?



Well, looking at the my Makefile (recent git build, line 873)  it reads;

uninstall: uninstall-recursive

Which doesn't seem to go anywhere. Just another mystery for me



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Owen