From 10aeeb61e6911dbcebb4529346ccc5b37714709c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:42:18 +0000
Subject: added the warning that gawk's make uninstall will do a rm -rf
 /usr/bin/* if the libexec dir override is applied

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1779 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter05/gawk-inst.xml | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

(limited to 'chapter05/gawk-inst.xml')

diff --git a/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml b/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml
index bdbb93a5a..7d10b61cd 100644
--- a/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Gawk</title>
 
+<para>Warning: do NOT run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on this
+package if you apply the <emphasis>sed</emphasis> fix to change the
+<filename class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition. The
+<emphasis>uninstall</emphasis> rule in the <filename>Makefile</filename>
+file runs a command like <userinput>rm -rf
+&lt;libexecdir&gt;/*</userinput> Since we change the <filename
+class="directory">libexec</filename> directory to <filename
+class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> it'll run <userinput>rm -rf
+/usr/bin/*</userinput></para>
+
 <para>When installing Gawk using glibc-2.1.x on your base system,
 it may be necessary to use a fix to prevent a variable name conflict. The
 following commands can be used in this case.  Note that these commands
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