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Date:      Sun, 21 Apr 2002 00:53:22 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@highperformance.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: don't know how to make reinstall
Message-ID:  <20020421005322.H76898@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204202315540.2974-100000@server2.highperformance.net>; from jcwells@highperformance.net on Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 11:37:45PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204202315540.2974-100000@server2.highperformance.net>

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On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 11:37:45PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> I must just have a case of the "stupids" tonight. Nothing is working for
> me, though I think I am doing the right thing.
> 
> >From Makefile.inc1:
> 
> # reinstall 
> # 
> # If you have a build server, you can NFS mount the source
> # and obj directories and do a 'make reinstall' on the *client* to
> # install new binaries from the most recent server build.
> 
> >From the client:
> 
> client# make reinstall
> make: don't know how to make reinstall. Stop
> 
> Is this buggered?

The 'reinstall' target is right below the comment you quoted. You do
have /usr/src mounted, and you are in /usr/src when you executed the
command? (Anyway, you might as use 'installworld.' It's just
'reinstall' with an extra step where some of the current world's
binaries are saved.)
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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