Re: 2.54c can't build and install

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:43:52PM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "Bernhard" == Bernhard Reiter <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  Bernhard> I'm trying to build/install a recent autoconf version (2.54c)
>  Bernhard> on a machine with an older GNU/Linux installation.
> 
> The diagnostics you reported are typically seen on a NFS client
> which isn't synchronized (date-wise) with its NFS server.  Is
> that your case?  Could you try a local build? (e.g. in /tmp)

I'm building locally, 
but you gave me the right hint:

Autoconf only builds properly here
if the modification time is extracted correctly.

I'm usually using the "-m" flag for tar so I can 
look at the files and see when I extraced them or which files 
I've changed compared to the rest.
This is the first time that a packages did not build
when I used "-m".

So you could analyse that time dependency maybe adding a "touch"
at the right place or added a note to INSTALL. Something like:

"The build autoconf from the tarball you need to extract
the modification time from the archive (e.g. not using the "-m" flag
for tar)."


Thanks,
        Bernhard

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