Thank you Philip.
The clock was the problem. Having simply corrected the date/time,
Exim 2.10 compiled a treat.
Thanks very much for all the replies..
Martyn Griffiths
Univerisity of Glamorgan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Hazel [SMTP:ph10@???]
> Sent: Friday, December 18, 1998 4:39 PM
> To: Griffiths M (ISaCS)
> Cc: 'exim-users@???'
> Subject: Re: [EXIM] Problems compiling 2.10
>
> On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Griffiths M (ISaCS) wrote:
>
> > While trying to compile the latest version of Exim (2.10) I've hit a
> > snag not seen before with previous versions. It's a Sun box running
> > Solaris 2.5.1.
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > -------------------------
> > # make
> >
> > >>> Creating links to source files...
> > >>> New Makefile installed
> > >>> Use "make makefile" if you need to force rebuilding of the makefile
> >
> >
> > *** Makefile needs rebuilding
> > *** Please run "make makefile" at top level
>
> I had this problem once while developing, when I first tried to compile
> Exim on a foreign machine. After some faffing around, I discovered that
> the machine's clock had jumped backwards by about 30 minutes, just at
> the time I was doing the building. So although it kept rebuilding the
> Makefile, the Local/Makefile's timestamp was still in the future.
>
> It seems weird that it's happened on another completely different system
> (the one I saw it on was NetBSD). Please check your clock with "date",
> and compare that with the timestamps on Local/Makefile and the Makefile
> in the build directory.
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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