[ADMB Users] Built admb, but it says "Clock skew detected".

[John Sibert]

Glad you got it all build. I hope it works out well for you.
John

On 09/09/2010 05:03 PM, Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Many thanks for your reply.
>
> My machine was not running ntp daemon.  I had gotten the source
> via subversion over http link and I think that my machine's
> clock was off / different from that of the source machine.
>
> Today I have gotten ntp implemented and reinstalled the
> software and both compilation and verify ran clean.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tena Sakai
> tsakai at gallo.ucsf.edu
>
> On 9/9/10 11:25 AM, "John Sibert"<sibert at hawaii.edu>  wrote:
>
>    
>> A bit of googling turned up the following on
>> http://www.unix.com/solaris/45737-make-2-warning-clock-skew-detected-your-buil
>> d-may-incomplete.html
>>
>>      
>>> hhhmm... in regards to the below warning...
>>> /Warning message: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete/.
>>>
>>> These warnings can occur when the clock on the build machine is out of
>>> sync with the timestamps on the source files. Other errors, apparently
>>> unrelated but in fact caused by the clock skew, can occur along with
>>> the clock skew warnings. These secondary errors may tend to obscure
>>> the fact that the true root cause of the problem is an out-of-sync
>>> clock. For example, an out-of-sync clock has been known to cause an
>>> old version of javac to be used to compile some files, resulting in
>>> errors when the pre-1.4 compiler ran across the new assert keyword in
>>> the 1.4 source code.
>>> If you see these warnings, reset the clock on the build machine, run
>>> "gnumake clobber" or delete the directory containing the build output,
>>> and restart the build from the beginning.
>>>        
>> I'm not sure why the time stamps on the source files might appear out of
>> sync with you machine. You could make sure you machine` time is
>> correctly synced to a time server. http://www.ntp.org/  Or, as a kludge,
>> you could "touch" all of the source files.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 09/08/2010 03:38 PM, Tena Sakai wrote:
>>      
>>>   make[1]: warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete
>>>        
>
>    

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John Sibert
Emeritus Researcher, SOEST
University of Hawaii at Manoa

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