Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:26:45 -0700 From: Scott Sewall <sewall@ix.netcom.com> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble building expect Message-ID: <3EC41425.50801@ix.netcom.com> References: <3EC2CEE5.2010405@ix.netcom.com> <20030515100324.GB15336@heechee.tobez.org>
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Anton Berezin wrote: >On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:19:01PM -0700, Scott Sewall wrote: > > >>I'm having some trouble building the expect port on current. Any pointers >>would be appreciated. >> >>I received the following error building the expect port: >> >>===> Configuring for expect-5.38.0_1 >>configuring Expect 5.38.0 >>checking for autoconf... no >>checking configure up to date... no >>configure: warning: ./configure appears to be old (./configure.in and/or >>./Makef >>ile.in are newer) and the autoconf program to fix this situation was not >>found. >>If you've no idea what this means, enter the command "touch >>./configure" and re >>start ./configure. >> >> > >Most likely your system time is very far in the past (a few months at >least). If it is so, please set the date to a more reasonable value and >do make clean before trying to build the port again. > When I did the initial FreeBSD install the clock was a month in the past. I corrected the time and configured ntp before running cvsup, building and installing kernel and world, and starting the expect build. Maybe that is the source of the problem. Taking your advice, I ran make clean, afterwhich the build succeeds. Thanks! -- Scott
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