Re: compiling the source failed

[Paul Eggert]

> From: w0o <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:09:26 +0300

> While trying to compile a new ver of autoconf (2.57) i got
> 
> ==snip-snip===
> $ make
> cd . && /bin/sh /home/woo/autoconf-2.57/config/missing --run autoconf

It looks like the time stamps on your files are messed up somehow.
The file "configure" should be newer than "configure.ac", e.g.:

8-arte $ TZ=UTC0 ls -l --full-time configure.ac configure
-rwxrwxr-x    1 eggert   eggert      92278 2002-12-03 08:01:20.000000000 +0000 
configure
-rw-rw-r--    1 eggert   eggert       3531 2002-12-03 06:32:04.000000000 +0000 
configure.ac

If your timestamps differ, you need to reextract the files from the
tar image without losing the time stamps.