Nevermind - no, it's not fun - and the project really should rethink failing with an error or offering an override to bypass this error.
In this case it was svn's bogus use checkout/export time and crossing timezones that have screwed up my datestamps. For a project with extreme dedication to metadata, this screwball default always trips up. Bill William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > On a very fast dual cpu xeon box, configuring and then running make under > linux gives me; > > make[1]: Warning: File `Makefile.PL' has modification time 3.7e+03 s in the > future > Makefile out-of-date with respect to Makefile.PL > Cleaning current config before rebuilding Makefile... > make -f Makefile.old clean > /dev/null 2>&1 > > This isn't very funny. > > Is there any magic in the modperl2 or Apache-Test configurations that would > be dinking the datestamps? Has anyone seen similar? > . >