Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote:

> > Thus, if I'm right that Automake doesn't know which directories
> > the package owns, it should should err on the side of caution: it
> > should *not* try to delete any empty directories at uninstall
> > time.  Neither should Automake try to guess -- guesses involving
> > the "rm" command, especially as root, are a really dangerous
> > idea!
>
> That's why you use the rmdir command.

Semantics equivalent to 'rmdir' may not be available on non-Unix
operating systems.  Automake doesn't just run under Unix.

Bob
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