Re: why does `Makefile' have modification time in the future?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terrence M. Brannon) writes: > > I just got up a stable Debian system and decided to install some perl > modules. This and other software I downloaded consistently gave me > this error about the modification time of the Makefile and some of its > targets being in the future. I

why does `Makefile' have modification time in the future? (moreinfo)

The problem most likely stems from the fact that the filesystem I am writing to is on an NFS disk --- the exact same programs don't give this error when copied to a local filesystem. Transcript below: bash# gzip -dc PGPLOT-2.05.tar.gz | tar xvf - PGPLOT-2.05/ PGPLOT-2.05/typemap PGPLOT-2.05/test

why does `Makefile' have modification time in the future?

I just got up a stable Debian system and decided to install some perl modules. This and other software I downloaded consistently gave me this error about the modification time of the Makefile and some of its targets being in the future. I went back and re-downloaded some of these things from scratc