Manuel,

In this case, all is local (and xntpd is my friend also :-). The date
error message is probably related to the expectation of date ordering
produced by the -t option (which is apparently not working).

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 10:13:48AM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
> > 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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