Hello Ralf; On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:35, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> wrote: > Please check whether the files in the package tarball had time stamps in > the future (relative to the time when you were building). In that case, > it may be the distributor's system clock that is wrong. They seem OK. All the files in the tarball are from March 18th of this year. > Or you are > building in a directory which has whitespace in the name (this has been > fixed only recently in Automake). No whitespace in the name. > If neither appears to be the case, then it is probably helpful to add > set -x > > as second line to the configure script and rerun it >log 2>&1, search > for the error message in the log file, and post the twenty some lines > of output before it. The lines around the error are below and in case I missed something important I put the whole log file up at http://mingrone.org/misc/parcellite-0.9.1/log checking whether build environment is sane... + sleep 1 + echo timestamp + ls -Lt ./configure conftest.file + set X conftest.file [31m./configure[39;49m[m + test X conftest.file [31m./configure[39;49m[m = X + rm -f conftest.file + test X conftest.file [31m./configure[39;49m[m != X ./configure conftest.file + test X conftest.file [31m./configure[39;49m[m != X conftest.file ./configure + printf %s\n configure:2069: error: ls -t appears to fail. Make sure there is not a broken alias in your environment + printf %s\n configure: error: ls -t appears to fail. Make sure there is not a broken alias in your environment configure: error: ls -t appears to fail. Make sure there is not a broken alias in your environment + exit 1 + exit 1 + printf %s\n configure:2082: error: newly created file is older than distributed files! Check your system clock + printf %s\n configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files! Check your system clock configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files! Check your system clock + exit 1 + exit 1 + exit_status=1 Cheers, Joey _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf