In the log you see checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files! Check your system clock
So it seems that your system clock is off by a considerable interval (probably, years!) This might be a problem... Does the output of "date" in the terminal match the wall clock in any way? On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 8:37 PM 'Florian Hanisch' via sage-support <sage-support@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > this might be a question for the developers groups. But before joining the > dev-group just to be able to post one question, I decided to ask here first. > > I am trying to compile sage 8.6 on Centos 7 (intel core i5, 8GB Ram) but the > process stops with the following message > > > Error building Sage. > > > > The following package(s) may have failed to build (not necessarily > > during this run of 'make all-start'): > > > > * package: yasm-1.3.0.p0 > > log file: /apps/srv01/pmt/pmtfh/sage/sage-8.6/logs/pkgs/yasm-1.3.0.p0.log > > build directory: > > /apps/srv01/pmt/pmtfh/sage/sage-8.6/local/var/tmp/sage/build/yasm-1.3.0.p0 > > I attached the log-file mentioned above to my post. I know that the package > perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker is not installed on my computer > (unfortunately, I am not root on the computer I am using). Is this a possible > reason for the problem ? Or do I have to look for a "deeper" problem ? > > Thanks, > > Florian > > P.S. If this question should be posted at sage-devel, plaese let me know, I > will subscribe and post then. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.