What’s the opposite of ‘make install’, i.e. how do you uninstall a library in Linux?

While running

./configure --prefix=/mingw

on a MinGW/MSYS system for a library I had previously run

'./configure --prefix=/mingw && make && make install'

I came across this message:

WARNING: A version of the Vamp plugin SDK is already installed. Expect worries and sorrows if you install a new version without removing the old one first. (Continuing)

This had me worried. What’s the opposite of ‘make install’, i.e. how is a library uninstalled in Linux? Will ‘make clean’ do the job, or are there other steps involved?

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