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Re: configure error
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Re: configure error |
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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:20:50 -0700 (PDT) |
Joey Mingrone wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:56, Patrick Welche <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:44:48AM -0700, Joey Mingrone wrote:
>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c
>>> checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: ls -t
>>> appears to fail. Make sure there is not a broken
>>> alias in your environment
>>> configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
>>> Check your system clock
>>
>> That comes from automake's AM_SANITY_CHECK (m4/sanity.m4) which failed on
>>
>> ls -t "$srcdir/configure" conftest.file
>>
>> So, what "ls" is on the system, and is "ls" really /bin/ls or is it an
>> alias? (I'm just paraphrasing the error message ;-) )
>>
>
> Yeah, /bin/ls is there, but it's not gnu ls. It does support the -t
> option as well (sort by modified time).
>
> I think I'm getting closer. I just moved /bin/ls out of the way and
> put gnu ls in its place and configure ran without errors. Now to
> figure out how to patch configure.in so it doesn't expect gnu ls.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joey
>
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configure the systemclock with the date command
date MMDDhhmmCCYY.ss
MM month
DD day
hh hour
mm minutes
CCYY year
ss seconds
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