Cant configure any programs from source WHY???

RHLinuxGUY · 07-09-2004, 03:04 AM

Whenever I try to ./configure ANY program, and thats true ANY! it brings this error up. This one is from battle for wesnoth...

[root@lsanca2-ar29-4-62-240-041 wesnoth-0.8]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock
[root@lsanca2-ar29-4-62-240-041 wesnoth-0.8]#

God I cant do anything from source, and alot of games that I have are from source, plz help!

IBall · 07-09-2004, 03:12 AM

Do what it tells you: Check your system clock

It may be that your computer thinks that the time and date is before today, and the files you downloaded were created in the future acording to your computer.

I hope this helps
--Ian

RHLinuxGUY · 07-09-2004, 06:23 AM

How do I fix that???

Cerbere · 07-09-2004, 10:21 PM

man hwclock

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

[edit] and 'man date' while you're at it. [/edit]