On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Bud wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently try to recompile my kernel, and it gives me an error saying
> 'clock shrew detected, your build may be incomplete'. I was wondering if
> anyone else came across this, or knows what it means.
>
Clock skew detected means that gccthinks your compuier clock is not right.
The normal reason for this is that files are modified/created in the
future. Try doing:
find /usr/src/linux -type f -exec touch {} \;
and see if that helps things (it will set the modification date of all the
files in /usr/src/linux to the corrent date).
> In fact ANYTHING I run though gcc from hello world programs to the kernel
> it gives me this error message.
>
This suggests that gcc is probably right about your clock. Does date give
anything like a sensible time?
> I don't think it is (to) harmful, I been using the kernel and some program in
> which I got those errors for a couple of weeks now and they have been very
> stable and run prefect, so it's not that big of a deal, I was just wondering
> if anyone knew what this meant.
>
It doesn't matter in itself. The only problem is that it will break
make in that it will not be able to correctly figure out what needs
compiling. It might, however, indicate that there is a more serious
problem.
--
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Barach's Rule:
An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his own physician.
