Mar 02
Followed this great advice on installing RMagick and ImageMagick on CentOS, and at
# cd ImageMagick*
# ./configure
got
checking whether build environment is sane… configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock
Well, no problem with that clock but the solution is to touch the top-level files of your ImageMagick folder, so the above becomes
# touch ImageMagick*/*
# cd ImageMagick*
# ./configure
Update: Of course it was the clock. Shouldn’t have gotten one of those cheap old dedicated machines, but I want to compare it with VPS anyway. So I proceeded like this: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-ntp-to-synchronize-server-clock/ and clock was off by a cool eight hours.
November 20th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
[...] other approach I’ve tried is to touch the top level the files in the build folder like suggested here, but this hasn’t worked either (an to be honest, I’m not sure why it would have worked [...]
August 20th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
[...] other approach I’ve tried is to touch the top level the files in the build folder like suggested here, but this hasn’t worked either (an to be honest, I’m not sure why it would have worked [...]