Re: configure error

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Joey,

* Joey Mingrone wrote on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:44:48AM CEST:
> 
> 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.

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.  Or you are
building in a directory which has whitespace in the name (this has been
fixed only recently in Automake).

> Has anyone encountered a problem like this?

Yes, but only in above-mentioned cases.

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.

Cheers,
Ralf