make uninstall is not uninstalling

[strk]

As puzzling as it may be, sudo make uninstall prints lines like:

...
-- Uninstalling /usr/local/include/geos_c.h
-- Uninstalling /usr/local/include/geos.h
-- Uninstalling /usr/local/bin/geos-config
-- Uninstalling /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/geos.pc
-- Deleting /usr/local/include/geos directory
Built target uninstall

But none of those files is really removed:

ls -dl /usr/local/include/geos* /usr/local/bin/geos-config /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/geos* /usr/local/include/geos
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root   1290 Oct  1 10:24 /usr/local/bin/geos-config*
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root   4096 Oct  1 10:37 /usr/local/include/geos/
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root   4096 Oct  1 10:37 /usr/local/include/geos/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 194202 Oct  1 10:24 /usr/local/include/geos_c.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   1125 Jan 29  2022 /usr/local/include/geos.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    271 Oct  1 10:24 /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/geos.pc

What's the deal ?

[strk]

This patch partially fixes the problem:

diff --git a/cmake/cmake_uninstall.cmake.in b/cmake/cmake_uninstall.cmake.in
index 749221415..7eab12b3f 100644
--- a/cmake/cmake_uninstall.cmake.in
+++ b/cmake/cmake_uninstall.cmake.in
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ foreach(file ${files})
   endif()
 
   execute_process(
-    COMMAND "@CMAKE_COMMAND@" -E remove \"$ENV{DESTDIR}${file}\"
+    COMMAND "@CMAKE_COMMAND@" -E remove "$ENV{DESTDIR}${file}"
     OUTPUT_VARIABLE rm_out
     RESULT_VARIABLE rm_retval)

Partially because /usr/local/include/geos/ is still there, but geos-config at least is gone.
This is with cmake 3.22.1

[strk]

3.13 is also affected