Allow 'make uninstall' w/out building or installing

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Author Name: Sandro Santilli (@strk)
Original Redmine Issue: 3813

Redmine category:build/install

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Current 'make uninstall' rule requires a full build and install in order to work. It'd be useful if you could uninstall w/out building or installing first, in case you cleaned your build tree after installing...

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.7.0 to Version 1.7.4

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.7.4 to Version 2.0.0

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Author Name: Pirmin Kalberer (Pirmin Kalberer)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - Nice to have

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Author Name: Médéric RIBREUX (Médéric RIBREUX)

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Hello, bug triage...

this is still true for QGIS 2.13 master !

When you use the instructions indicated in the INSTALL file and try to @make uninstall@ just after @ccmake ..@, you've got the following:

CMake Error at cmake_uninstall.cmake:2 (MESSAGE):
  Cannot find install manifest:
  "/home/medspx/projects/QGIS/QGIS/build-test/install_manifest.txt"

So you can't make a build directory, configure CMake with ccmake and make uninstall without having made at least one @make install@. But it seems to be a "CMake problem":https://cmake.org/Wiki/RecipeAddUninstallTarget and not a QGIS one. Should we delete this bug or try to find a workaround ?

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback
• pull_request_patch_supplied was configured as 0
• assigned_to_id removed nobody

[qgib]

Author Name: Sandro Santilli (@strk)

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is there a target that builds install_manifest.txt, to make it a dependency of the "uninstall" target ?

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• easy_fix was configured as 0

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