Re: configure error

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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


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