Re: configure error

[Joey Mingrone]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:56, Patrick Welche <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:44:48AM -0700, Joey Mingrone wrote:
>> 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
>
> That comes from automake's AM_SANITY_CHECK (m4/sanity.m4) which failed on
>
>   ls -t "$srcdir/configure" conftest.file
>
> So, what "ls" is on the system, and is "ls" really /bin/ls or is it an
> alias? (I'm just paraphrasing the error message ;-) )
>

Yeah, /bin/ls is there, but it's not gnu ls.  It does support the -t
option as well (sort by modified time).

I think I'm getting closer.  I just moved /bin/ls out of the way and
put gnu ls in its place and configure ran without errors.  Now to
figure out how to patch configure.in so it doesn't expect gnu ls.

Thanks,

Joey