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Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> randyk@apache.org wrote:
>
>> Author: randyk
>> Date: Mon Apr 11 10:35:20 2005
>> New Revision: 160929
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=160929
>> Log:
>> add in Stas' suggestion about how to remove a prior mod_perl-2
>> installation.
>>
>> Modified:
>> perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/rename.pod
>>
>> Modified: perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/rename.pod
>> URL:
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/rename.pod?view=diff&r1=160928&r2=160929
>>
>> ==============================================================================
>>
>> --- perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/rename.pod (original)
>> +++ perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/rename.pod Mon Apr 11
>> 10:35:20 2005
>> @@ -92,7 +92,16 @@
>>
>> Before installing mod_perl 2, either remove an earlier
>> mod_perl 2 installation (prior to 1.999022), or else choose
>> -to install the new version in a different area.
>> +to install the new version in a different area. To remove
>> +a prior installation of mod_perl 2, one can do, on Unix,
>> +
>> + % find /usr/lib/perl5 -name 'Apache2*' -exec rm -rf {} \;
>> +
>> +where F</usr/lib/perl5> is the top-level root of your Perl tree.
>> +Win32 ppm users can do, within the ppm shell,
>> +
>> + ppm> remove mod_perl
>> +
>>
>> =item *
>>
>>
> What about adding it as a target to Makefile since we'll know the perl root
> based on how Makefile.PL was run ?

-1: never try to delete files using patterns on the user's system outside
of the current build directory, as things may go horribly wrong. We do for
example remove old test.pm using the MakeMaker .mypacklist technique in
Apache-Test,

+1 to print a suggestion to how one could delete the files...

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