[afnog] Exim 4.52 Installation problem on FreeBSD version 5.4

[Emmanuel Antwi Kwarteng]

Hi Brian,

It worked like magic.
It just finished installing.

Thanks a lot.

Kwarteng
>
> OK, then I think the clock on your system is wrong. Type 'date' to show the
> current date and time.
>
> Looking at the source, it seems you will get this error if any of the files
> OS/Makefile-Base
> OS/Makefile-Default
> scripts/Configure
> scripts/Configure-Makefile
> src/EDITME
>
> is newer than Local/Makefile. That's what makes me think the clock is in
> the past. I've been bitten with this problem before :-)
>
> Easiest way to set the time accurately:
>
> # ntpdate -b ntp-1.uk.tiscali.com ntp-2.uk.tiscali.com
>
> (substitute any nearer NTP server(s) that you have access to)
>
> Once you've done that, you should rm -rf the work/ subdirectory if you're
> building from ports; if building from source, just doing
>
> # touch Local/Makefile
>
> should be sufficient to update the timestamp on that file.
>
> Please report back if that fixes the problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian.