On 7/25/12 8:55 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 7/25/12 8:51 AM, Daniel Macks wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:29:27 +0200, Dominique Dhumieres 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I get the same loop with ppc 10.5, the time stamp is
>>>
>>> make: Warning: File `Makefile.am' has modification time 1.8e+19 s in 
>>> the future
>>
>> Do you have "coreutils-default" installed? The build system has some 
>> weird hand-crafted make rules that cause some rerunning of autotools 
>> for no reason, so I 'touch' some files to try to trick that (but I 
>> didn't test whether coreutils's 'touch' behaves oddly). Do you have 
>> fink's "make" package installed? I could envision that it also causes 
>> different behavior (I didn't test *without* it installed) due to some 
>> weird timestamps in the tarball. I hacked just enough to get it to 
>> build reliably for me at all (which also allowed scrapping am19 and 
>> such), but quite possibly it needs more makefile-hacking and/or de-novo 
>> autotools generation to get it self-consistent. 
>>
>> dan
>>
>>   --
>> Daniel Macks
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
> 
> The package built OK for me on 10.6/x86_64 with no Fink autotools
> installed--without coreutils-default or Fink make.
> 


It doesn't appear that either coreutils-default or Fink make causes the
problem.  The build works for me with one or both of them installed.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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