[SOLVED] cannot compile MySQL: "Newly created file is older than distributed files!"

[kozaki]

Config : Linux MDK-9.2 with KDE-3.1 & all updates done yesterday.

I cannot configure MySQL-4.0.17, because of this error (inside the QUOTE below)
Please help me

[... mysql-4.0.17]# CFLAGS="-O3" CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS="-O3 -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions \
-fno-rtti" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql \
[...]

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock

The BIOS Time is correct, as well as that on the desktop.
How do one understand this error message ?
Couldn't find any help on several newsgroups or Google

It seems that this message is relying on thoses lines in aclocal.m4 (lines 361-379) :

# Check to make sure that the build environment is sane.
#

AC_DEFUN(AM_SANITY_CHECK,
[AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether build environment is sane])
sleep 1
echo timestamp > conftestfile
# Do this in a subshell so we don't clobber the current shell's
# arguments. FIXME: maybe try `-L' hack like GETLOADAVG test?
if (set X `ls -t $srcdir/configure conftestfile`; test "[$]2" = conftestfile)
then
# Ok.
:
else
AC_MSG_ERROR([newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock])
fi
rm -f conftest*
AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)])

[X_console]

I know you said the desktop time is right, but what about the year? When I first got this error everything looked in order but then I realized my computer was set to 1970 or something. Make sure the year is right.

[kozaki]

> You guessed right X_console : the year was 2003
It's compiling now