distuninstallcheck ¶distcheck also checks that the uninstall rule works
properly, both for ordinary and DESTDIR builds. It does this
by invoking ‘make uninstall’, and then it checks the install tree
to see if any files are left over. This check will make sure that you
correctly coded your uninstall-related rules.
By default, the checking is done by the distuninstallcheck
rule, and the list of files in the install tree is generated by
‘$(distuninstallcheck_listfiles)’. The value of the latter
variable is taken to be a shell command to run that prints the list of
files to stdout.
Either of these can be overridden to modify the behavior of
distcheck. For instance, to disable this check completely (not
recommended), you would write:
distuninstallcheck:
@: