R help - Jun 1999 - "clock skew" when building libraries

Hi,

I am new to Linux. I recently installed R (0.64.1 using rpm for Red Hat 6.0);
then I installed several libraries.  When following the steps in VR complements
to R, everything worked fine but I got the following messages (this happened
for every single one of the libraries installed):

make: *** Warning: File /usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf' has modification time in
the
future (938981789>929390309)

make: *** Warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete

Files in the etc, bin, afm, and doc directories have date of 3-Oct-1999.
However, the directories themselves have the right date (7-June-1999). What
have I done wrong? Should I worry or do something?  Note that the libraries
(lme, survival5, MASS,integrate) seem to be working OK.

Thanks,

Ramon
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ramon diaz-uriarte <rdiazuri at students.wisc.edu> writes:
> make: *** Warning: File /usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf' has modification time
in the
> future (938981789>929390309)
> 
> make: *** Warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete
> 
> Files in the etc, bin, afm, and doc directories have date of 3-Oct-1999.
> However, the directories themselves have the right date (7-June-1999). What
> have I done wrong? Should I worry or do something?  Note that the libraries
> (lme, survival5, MASS,integrate) seem to be working OK.
Just wait until Oct 4 and everything will clear up....

No, seriously:

I don't think there's reason to worry, and Martyn Plummer can probably
explain how this has happened. (I think it originates in the .rpm
file. Quite possibly, he forgot to set the clock on his new RedHat6.0
machine...)

To fix (as root) it should suffice to do 

touch /usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf

- or maybe

find /usr/lib/R -type f | xargs touch

(The former changes the date of a specific file to "now", the later
does it to all files under /usr/lib/R)

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