Program "clean" or "uninstall"

[joaofavoretti]

Description

From the first time that I installed the program to start contributing. I always wondered why there isnt any cleaner executable or uninstall command.

It would be nice to have some kind of make clean to remove all the executable files created by the autogen.sh, configure and compiling steps. I dont know if that make sense, but as I change something to one of these 3 steps of "program generation" I dont know if I fully succeeded because of some file that were already there or it was sth that I have done right.

I think it would be great to create that make clean command.

Furthermore, as I noticied that our program uses some of the configuration directories from the the host machine. It would be nice if there was any way to uninstall that files from those directories the use wanted to. So maybe we should include some kind of make uninstall command, as there is make install.

Questions

As far as I know, we dont write our own Makefile. It is created by some kind of configuration script. Would that be a hard feature to implement?