Re: gnuplot installation error

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> >On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, moussaoui djillali wrote:

> >>checking whether build enviroment is sane
> >>...configure: error:newly created file is older than
> >>distributed files"

> >That's a local problem of your computer: at least one clock must
> >be seriously out of synch.  I could be the one of the machine you're
> >running configure on, or your file server, or something else.

> This may be a useful note to add to the error message, e.g.,

Well, that error message is directly from GNU autoconf, not authored by
us, so it's not ours to change anyway.  And frankly I think it's quite
self-explanatory as it is --- it just takes a little experience to
recognize that clocks can be off, and that this will cause problems for at
least 'make', but can easily confuse other tools, too.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.