On sön, 2009-12-20 at 22:02 +0200, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> On 2009-12-20 18:20 +0200, Tom Lane wrote:
> > James William Pye<lists(at)jwp(dot)name> writes:
> >> But it doesn't seem to want to stop configure'ing on my fbsd8/amd64 box:
> >
> > Usually that means timestamp skew, ie file timestamps are later than
> > your system clock.
>
> I've hit this problem before and could not figure out what was wrong.
> Is this documented somewhere?
Well, this is more of a general problem. Anything using make will
misbehave if the clock is wrong, and anything using autotools even more
so.