I mean, in the source directory. On 12 June 2015 at 15:13, Muzaffer Tolga Ozses <tolga at ozses.net> wrote:> Have you done *make distclean* in prior? That should remove all things > dovecot. > > On 12 June 2015 at 15:10, Steve Matzura <number6 at noisynotes.com> wrote: > >> On advice/recommendation received on this list, I removed version >> 1.0.15 with: >> >> rm -rf /usr/local/dovecot >> >> However, now that I have version 2 properly installed, configured, and >> ready to start testing with Postfix, it appears the old version is >> still in /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/include, /usr/local/libexec, >> /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/shared/doc. Thinking that anything in >> /usr/local is something that was installed s a result of having built >> it from source (which 1.0.15 definitely was), should these also be >> removed? >> > >
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:14:03 +0300, you wrote:>I mean, in the source directory.You mean in the directory where files from the tar were placed? I've unfortunately removed those manually, but then I put them back and tried the make again, still same error. "make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.>On 12 June 2015 at 15:13, Muzaffer Tolga Ozses <tolga at ozses.net> wrote: > >> Have you done *make distclean* in prior? That should remove all things >> dovecot. >> >> On 12 June 2015 at 15:10, Steve Matzura <number6 at noisynotes.com> wrote: >> >>> On advice/recommendation received on this list, I removed version >>> 1.0.15 with: >>> >>> rm -rf /usr/local/dovecot >>> >>> However, now that I have version 2 properly installed, configured, and >>> ready to start testing with Postfix, it appears the old version is >>> still in /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/include, /usr/local/libexec, >>> /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/shared/doc. Thinking that anything in >>> /usr/local is something that was installed s a result of having built >>> it from source (which 1.0.15 definitely was), should these also be >>> removed? >>> >> >>
Am Freitag, den 12.06.2015, 09:15 -0400 schrieb Steve Matzura:> On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:14:03 +0300, you wrote: > > > I mean, in the source directory. > > You mean in the directory where files from the tar were placed? I've > unfortunately removed those manually, but then I put them back and > tried the make again, still same error. "make: *** No rule to make > target `distclean'. Stop. >I haven't yet compiled dovecot by myself but with wine it's 'make uninstall' clean and distclean only apply to the build source tree itself but aren't the reverse of 'make install' That's at least how it should be