Hey What i would do is maby take a look inside his configure.ac to figure out what he is checking for. And maby see why/how to fix it :). Like look for the macro that checks for that specific feature in the shell or otherwise. -Phil 2009/4/30 Joey Mingrone <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello; > > I'm attempting create a FreeBSD port from an application that was > developed mainly for linux. The original author did use autoconf so > this will make porting easier. > > One problem that I'm having trouble solving is that the configure > script fails with the following error: > > 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 > > The system clock is fine and there are no broken aliases. > > Has anyone encountered a problem like this? If it helps, I've made > the original source, including configure.in and Makiefile.am files, > available at http://mingrone.org/misc/parcellite-0.9.1 > > Thanks for any help in advance. > > Joey > > > _______________________________________________ > Autoconf mailing list > Autoconf@xxxxxxx > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf > _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
