Uninstalling subversion (or any package you’ve compiled manually)
I compiled subversion 1.4.4 and its dependencies (apr, neon) from source when I first got my Macbook, before I had installed MacPorts. Recently I wanted to upgrade to subversion 1.5, and also remove any trace of my previous compile, so I went to my src folder where I had subversion untarred and tried:
~/Documents/src/subversion-1.4.4$ make uninstall
make: [...]