I’m connected to my university’s small Linux cluster via PuTTY and WinSCP, transferring files using the latter and compiling and running them with the former. My work so far has been performed in the university’s labs, but today I have been doing some work at home that generated an interesting warning.
I uploaded an entire folder of stuff and, upon running the make command, I get this as the last line of output:
make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete.
The resulting binary works correctly, and there doesn’t seem to be any other unexpected errors in the build process.
I seem to be able to trigger the error by building after uploading some new / replacement files (I edit everything locally then upload the new version), so I’m wondering if it’s something just as simple as mismatched file modification times? Or something more concerning?
So, should I be worried? How do I fix/prevent this?
