Do you build on a network file system? Do they have a "scratch" partition you can use, which is on a local disk?
What you see has to do with "skew clocks" on the fileserver vs the CPU you use. On Fri, 17 Jul 2020, 21:00 'Reimundo Heluani' via sage-devel, < sage-devel@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hello, I asked shell access to a larger computer at my institution (192 > threads and a couple terabytes of RAM). This is not a computer that I have > root access. I am trying to build sage from git and I hit a configure > error on > every package with the message > > "newly created file is older than distributed files!" > > The snippet that fails is: > > # Do 'set' in a subshell so we don't clobber the current shell's > # arguments. Must try -L first in case configure is actually a > # symlink; some systems play weird games with the mod time of symlinks > # (eg FreeBSD returns the mod time of the symlink's containing > # directory). > if ( > am_has_slept=no > for am_try in 1 2; do > echo "timestamp, slept: $am_has_slept" > conftest.file > set X `ls -Lt "$srcdir/configure" conftest.file 2> /dev/null` > if test "$*" = "X"; then > # -L didn't work. > set X `ls -t "$srcdir/configure" conftest.file` > fi > if test "$*" != "X $srcdir/configure conftest.file" \ > && test "$*" != "X conftest.file $srcdir/configure"; then > > # If neither matched, then we have a broken ls. This can happen > # if, for instance, CONFIG_SHELL is bash and it inherits a > # broken ls alias from the environment. This has actually > # happened. Such a system could not be considered "sane". > as_fn_error $? "ls -t appears to fail. Make sure there is not a > broken > alias in your environment" "$LINENO" 5 > fi > if test "$2" = conftest.file || test $am_try -eq 2; then > break > fi > # Just in case. > sleep 1 > am_has_slept=yes > done > test "$2" = conftest.file > ) > then > # Ok. > : > else > as_fn_error $? "newly created file is older than distributed files! > Check your system clock" "$LINENO" 5 > fi > > But I am not familiar with the build system. I am attaching one of the > config > logs that fails and the main configure.log. I'll appreciate any help. > > Best, > > R. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/20200717200023.GB589209%40vertex > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq34CANhyWT%2BRo7CdfLzpOyBVocbxpHpiZN6WUOO%2B_RcMw%40mail.gmail.com.
