On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:50:17PM +0100, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I know this is not really intended for this list, but when installing
| tarballs (of any sort) i generally get this error:
|
| make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete.
|
| Ive checked the system time and it seems o.k (thats what i take the
| error as, that some where the time sync has got astray)
This is because the files are not stored on your local machine (let's
call it "A"), but on another (NFS typically - call this "B"). The other
machine's clock is not in sync with yours. When you create a file on this
filesystem it will get the timestamp from "B" because that's where the
file is really being made. This then looks different to "now" on your
machine "A".
This _can_ cause problems because sucessive makes depend on file
timestamps, and normally the newly made file will be younger than the
things it's made from. With clock skew this may not end up being the case.
The fix is to sync both machines to each other, usually by using an NTP
service.
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
Sadly, some of the classic UNIX jokes like 'ar t god' don't work any
more. There's always 'cat "tin of cat food"', though.
- mathew, [EMAIL PROTECTED], about Solaris
The old standby "got a light?" still works, though.
- JZ (Jeff Zurschmeide), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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