Re: configure error

[Philip Herron]

Hey

What i would do is maby take a look inside his configure.ac to figure
out what he is checking for. And maby see why/how to fix it :). Like
look for the macro that checks for that specific feature in the shell
or otherwise.

-Phil

2009/4/30 Joey Mingrone <address@hidden>:
> Hello;
>
> I'm attempting create a FreeBSD port from an application that was
> developed mainly for linux.  The original author did use autoconf so
> this will make porting easier.
>
> One problem that I'm having trouble solving is that the configure
> script fails with the following error:
>
> 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.
>
> Has anyone encountered a problem like this?  If it helps, I've made
> the original source, including configure.in and Makiefile.am files,
> available at http://mingrone.org/misc/parcellite-0.9.1
>
> Thanks for any help in advance.
>
> Joey
>
>
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