I am trying to build some software I downloaded source for about two 
months ago.  I get this error.


checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: ls -t 
appears to fail.  Make sure there is not a broken
alias in your environment
configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock


This makes no sense to me.  First, the only alias I have is ls='ls -F' 
and even when I remove that I still have the problem, second, my system 
time is synced with ntpd, and third, all the distributed files are at 
least 2 months old since that's when I DL'd them.

I've searched the web and found people with similar problems going back 
at least 4 years, but I haven't seen any solutions that I haven't already 
accounted for.  I am running bash on a pretty stock 1.6 system.  Any 
pointers appreciated.  I'm thinking of just commenting out this check in 
the configure script and seeing how much farther I can get.


Thanks,
Tim
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