> 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

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