Why won't RELENG_6_2 Build?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Jul 29 02:46:03 UTC 2007


On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:08:34PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:55:56PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> >>I am trying to build RELENG_6_2 from a freshly cvsupped ports tree.
> >>
> >>It stops in the build of libmagic with a message from the temporary 
> >>(build)
> >>ld 'cannot find -lc'?
> >>
> >>What does this mean?  How can I fix it?
> >
> >Usually means your system clock is wrong
> 
> Maybe a couple of minutes slow, but how exactly would the build know, so
> long as the times were consitent?

If the clock is older than the timestamps on the source files (or the
time jump backwards) then the build will become confused.

Kris


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