> I'm trying to build xenocara on a sparcstation running 5.5-stable (dmesg > below). During make build, I get the following error:
[...] > checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly created > file is older than distributed files! > Check your system clock > The xenocara source is mounted from an NFS server, both have their clocks > syncrhonised from a set of local NTP servers, so their time is within a > few ms from each other. > Other systems (e.g. sparc64 or hppa) using the same NFS server have no > problem. A similar sparcstation-5 running 5.4-stable also works fine. > The computer with the problem was running 5.3-stable until May 1st and > also worked fine when building xenocara. > > What could be the problem here? This is a known issue which affects sparc (not sparc64) only, and is being investigated. In the meantime, consider building on a local disk. Miod
