"Clock skew detected" issue

Clock skew detected
Warning: File `main.cpp' has modification time 381 s in the future make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete.

the message "Clock skew detected" is most commonly given if compiling sources located on an NFS mount and the NFS server's clock runs ahead the client's clock doing the compilation.
A possible solution is to "touch" every file in the source tree in order to update timestamps: go to the root of the subtree an do "find . -exec touch {} \; "

Then "make clean"and retry compilation

Makefile setup

make --include-dir=../src clean


Labels: make, make clean, Makefile