Uninstall Lua from OS X 10.6.8

Question

I was browsing the Lua source code and I did "make install". It worked perfectly but I could not uninstall it! How can I install Lua 5.0?

Answer 1

Based on my reading of Lua 5.0's makefile, I'd say:

1. Run make echo, and note the folders INSTALL_BIN, INSTALL_INC, INSTALL_LIB, and INSTALL_MAN

2. For each file in bin, remove that file from INSTALL_BIN

3. For each file in include named *.h, remove that file from INSTALL_INC

4. For each file in lib named *.a, remove that file from INCLUDE_LIB

5. For each file in doc named *.1, remove that file from INCLUDE_MAN

6. Upgrade to Lua 5.2 so if you accidentally install again, you can uninstall :-)

Alternatively: if you download Lua 5.2 and configure it in exactly the same way (so all the INSTALL_* folders are the same), then its make uninstall will delete almost all of these for you. You only have to delete liblualib.a from INCLUDE_LIB.