On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:10 PM 'Florian Hanisch' via sage-support
<sage-support@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, my system clock matches the local time quite accurately (including 
> the year), I just checked it again. I can / could not make any sense of this 
> comment in the log that you quoted.

This is a quite standard test in configure files generated by GNU autotools.

I don't find much relevant on this on the net, except perhaps
https://serverfault.com/questions/136186/what-steps-can-you-take-to-ensure-sane-build-environments-when-compiling-softwar

Do you by any chance have "ls" aliased to something ?


>
>
> On Monday, March 18, 2019 at 8:56:31 PM UTC, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>
>> 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-s...@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.
>> >
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