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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: "make reinstall"?
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On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> Harlan Stenn stands accused of saying:
> > I have done a "make world" on a current 2.2-STABLE tree.
> > 
> > I went to another machine (2.1-stable), and did an (effective) NFS mount
> > of the build machine's /usr/src and /usr/obj (I used symlinks to the
> > right places on an amd-controlled /net/ dir).
> > 
> > I do a "make reinstall", and after cleaning up some obvious stuff (added
> > mail to /etc/group, copied over libc.so.3.0 and /usr/bin/install), but
> > the "make reinstall" falls over trying to install klm_prot.h in
> > include/rpcsvc .
> > 
> > I haven't been able to figure this one out yet.
> > 
> > Suggestions?
> 
> Check and make sure that the directory and the file exist for starters;
> they're usually the two reasons reinstalls fail.  Also check that the 
> directory is a real directory, not a link to somewhere that doesn't
> exist anymore.
> 
> I am assuming that you're just getting the "no error message" message from
> install...
> 
> > H
> 
> -- 
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> 

  Actually the above is a bug in "reinstall".  Strangely "world" works
fine.

Tom