[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 150331] [build] uninstall of Gstreamer fails on Solaris due to non-gnu rmdir command in Makefile

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------- Comment #11 from Brian Cameron  2008-11-17 17:22 UTC -------

Wouldn't you want to do "rmdir -fR" to make sure that any subdirs in the
/opt/BGSgnome-2.6.2/share/gtk-doc/html/gstreamer-0.8/ directory also get
deleted?

I think the main advantage of "rmdir -p" is that it also removes empty parent
directories, so that if "gstreamer-0.8" is the only subdirectory in
"share/gtk-doc/html", then it will delete the "html" directory, and up the
stack.  However, I'm not sure this is really that useful since many modules
install gtk-docs, and users would typically install GStreamer to a directory
where there would be other docs and the "-p" wouldn't be useful.

In other words, this "-p" provides some benefit to users who install/uninstall
GStreamer to odd directories like /opt.  However, people who do things like
this are probably not novices and are clever enough to clean up after "make
uninstall" if it doesn't clean away common directories.


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