Re: revno 101399 fails to build

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

joakim@verona.se writes:

 > Funnily though, I had 2 jobs building emacs, both failed the same
 > way.  The chance of that ought to be rather low if its a race
 > condition.

(1) Not if they're both using the same files!  Offhand, I don't know
    about Emacs's build process, but in XEmacs the elc building
    process is very lazy since there is normally no dependency on
    platform or build in the elcs, only on changes in the els -- we
    symlink the whole lisp directory into the build directory, and
    build the elcs in-place.

(2) Since race conditions depend on timing (otherwise they'd be easy
    to diagnose and fix plain ol' bugs!), there may be something about
    the build host that frequently creates the right timing.  Or
    possibly building from the same source directory does that on your
    host.