make uninstall results in "rm -rf / "
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#19 make uninstall results in "rm -rf / "
"make uninstall" can be very dangerous because of "rm -rf" from Makefile (from version 3.6). It tried to remove everything.
This happened when tried to uninstall.
$ sudo make uninstall
Deleting binary and manpages...
rm -rf /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
make: *** [uninstall] Error 1
Whew! o_O
The issue is at the line 106 from Makefile
"rm -rf $(BTBINDIR)/"
BTBINDIR does not exist
if it was $(BINDIR) (instead of BTBINDIR) the command could become "rm -rf /usr/bin" and it could work (i.e. delete everything from /usr/bin/ ).
I suggest you to remove any "rm -rf" from Makefile and remove only the added files.