On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 10:13:48AM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was checking out the GLib 1.2.3 distribution (from http://www.gtk.org).
> The 'configure' script produced the following.
> 
> 	loading cache ./config.cache
> 	checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -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

Where are the sources ? local system or nfs server ?
A clock inconsistency between the client and server can produce this, I've been
hit by this in the past.
xntpd is your friend :)

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