Uninstall GDB 9.2 from manual installation

Uninstall GDB 9.2 from manual installation

[Hillary Barder]

Hello GDB developer team,

I have installed an old version of GDB from *https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/
<https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/>*. Then I simply ran
./configure
make
sudo make install

to install GDB 9.2 to /usr/local/bin on my Mac. Right now I want to
completely remove this old version, because it crash my problem and
consumes 100% CPU sometimes. Could you please tell me how to uninstall it
in my case? Thank you so much!

Best,
Emily

Re: Uninstall GDB 9.2 from manual installation

[Shahab Vahedi]

Hi Emily,

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 10:54:20AM -0400, Hillary Barder via Gdb wrote:
> to install GDB 9.2 to /usr/local/bin on my Mac. Right now I want to
> completely remove this old version, because it crash my problem and
> consumes 100% CPU sometimes. Could you please tell me how to uninstall it
> in my case? Thank you so much!

Assuming that you still have the build directory available, your very
first bet _would be_:

$ cd /path/to/build
$ make uninstall
  the uninstall target is not supported in this tree

Then this is what I suggest as a workaround: Build GDB 9.2 again, but this
time install it in a path that is new and no other files reside in:

$ cd /path/to/build
$ /path/to/src/binutils/configure ... --prefix=/local/pristine/path ...
$ make
$ make install                        # no root permission is needed

Now, enlist all the files installed in that path and (manually) remove
their counter part on your system:

$ find /local/pristine/path
  /local/pristine/path/usr/bin/gdb            # remove "/usr/bin/gdb"
  /local/pristine/path/usr/share/doc/...      # ...


Cheers,
Shahab

Re: Uninstall GDB 9.2 from manual installation

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 10:55 AM Hillary Barder via Gdb
<gdb@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> Hello GDB developer team,
>
> I have installed an old version of GDB from *https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/
> <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/>*. Then I simply ran
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
> to install GDB 9.2 to /usr/local/bin on my Mac. Right now I want to
> completely remove this old version, because it crash my problem and
> consumes 100% CPU sometimes. Could you please tell me how to uninstall it
> in my case? Thank you so much!

If GDB is the only thing in /usr/local, then you can perform a 'rm -rf
/usr/local/*' followed by a `hash -r' to clear the program cache.

Otherwise, perform the 'make uninstall' as suggested by Shahab.

Jeff