> With "make install", I usually just pass a "--prefix=/usr/local/stow/" flag and let GNU stow take care of actual install and uninstall I used to do something

> With "make install", I usually just pass a "--prefix=/usr/local/stow/" flag and let GNU stow take care of actual install and uninstall I used to do something like that 10 years ago. From what I remember, GNU stow was not really able to do that properly though, because of the way it handles nested un-existing directories. I. E. It will symlinks a whole directory if it does not previously exist, which will make later deployments of new symlinks inside impossible. Also it did not handle absolute symlinks. For these reasons, I used "xstow". Edit: just had a look at the latest version of GNU stow, looks like they corrected the folding issue, that's great!