Joey Mingrone wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:56, Patrick Welche <prlw1@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Autoconf mailing list > Autoconf@xxxxxxx > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf > > configure the systemclock with the date command date MMDDhhmmCCYY.ss MM month DD day hh hour mm minutes CCYY year ss seconds -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/configure-error-tp23311529p29684802.html Sent from the Gnu - Autoconf - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
