From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 13:24:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f113.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C9537B423 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from voodo21@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:24:38 -0700 Received: from 216.227.28.173 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:24:38 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.227.28.173] From: "Andy Johnson" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with configure scripts Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:24:38 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Apr 2001 20:24:38.0804 (UTC) FILETIME=[9798B540:01C0C845] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having a problem compiling programs that use a configure script (which is most programs). When I run a configure script, I receive this error: 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 There are NO aliases in my environment (I unalias -a to be sure) and my clock is correct. ls -t appears to work as it should, listing the most recently modified files first. For example, conftestfile is the file the configure script creates to test whether ls -t is working, then it seems to essentially execute this command: $ ls -t configure conftestfile conftestfile configure This seems to work as it should, listing conftestfile first. So, my question is, does anyone have an idea what else could be causing the problem? Thanks, Andrew _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message