Re: gnuplot installation error

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

>  
>
>>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.
>

Before I sent the message I grepped to confirm that it was the Gnuplot 
configure creating this message:

configure:   { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: newly created file is 
older than d

But had I looked in the file itself, I'd have seen the lines that follow:

   { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: newly created file is older than 
distributed files!
Check your system clock" >&5
echo "$as_me: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock" >&2;}