Re: why does `Makefile' have modification time in the future?
brannon@bufo.usc.edu (Terrence M. Brannon) writes:
>
> I just got up a stable Debian system and decided to install some perl
> modules. This and other software I downloaded consistently gave me
> this error about the modification time of the Makefile and some of its
> targets being in the future. I went back and re-downloaded some of
> these things from scratch but still got the error. Transcript below:
> make: *** File `Makefile' has modification time in the future
> make: *** File `Makefile.PL' has modification time in the future
> make: Failed to remake makefile `Makefile'.
discovered: the clocks of the two systems weren't sync'ed. Best
solution: xntpd. Current solution date
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