How do I uninstall (undo make install) ?

[strk]

It looks like the cmake invocation doesn't produce an uninstall target, how do I uninstall if I installed to the default /usr/local prefix ? Would it be too hard to provide a make uninstall target ?

[skmkt]

See in the FAQ from CMake wiki:

By default, CMake does not provide the "make uninstall" target, so you cannot do this. We do not want "make uninstall" to remove useful files from the system.

If you want an "uninstall" target in your project, then nobody prevents you from providing one. You need to delete the files listed in install_manifest.txt file.

Instead of creating an "uninstall" target, Unix users could enter this
command in the shell:

xargs rm < install_manifest.txt