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 ;-) ) Cheers, Patrick _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf