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1.5 Uninstalling

It may happen that you decide to uninstall C-INTERCAL after installing it; this may be useful if you want to test the installation system, or change the location you install programs, or for some reason you don’t want it on your computer. It’s worth uninstalling just before you install a new version of C-INTERCAL because this will save some disk space; you cannot install two versions of C-INTERCAL at once (at least, not in the same directory; but you can change the --prefix of one of the installations to get two versions at once).

If you installed C-INTERCAL using make install, you can uninstall it by using make uninstall from the installation directory, assuming that it still exists. If you can’t use that method for some reason, you can uninstall it by deleting the files ick and convickt where your computer installs binaries (with an extension like ‘.exe’ added if that’s usual for binaries on your operating system), libick.a, libickmt.a, libickec.a, and libyuk.a where your computer installs libraries, and the subdirectories ick-0.29 in the places where your computer installs data files and include files, and their contents.

You can go further than uninstalling. Running make clean will delete any files created by compilation; make distclean will delete those files, and also any files created by configuring. It’s probably a wise idea to uninstall before doing a distclean, though, as otherwise information needed to uninstall will be deleted, as that information is generated by configure. You can go even further and use make veryclean which will delete not only files created by configuring, but the entire build system; doing so is not recommended unless you have some method of rebuilding the build system from its original sources (a script to do this is provided in repository versions of C-INTERCAL, because the generated part of the build system is not stored in the repository).


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