* Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''.
This was reported to happen when building Emacs on RedHat GNU/Linux
-using a build directory automounted from Solaris (v5.6) file server,
-but it might not be limited to that configuration alone. Presumably,
-the NFS server doesn't commit the files' data to disk quickly enough,
-and the Emacs executable file is left ``busy'' for several seconds
-after Emacs has finished dumping itself. This causes the subsequent
-commands which invoke the dumped Emacs excutable to fail with the
-above message.
+using a build directory automounted from Solaris (SunOS 5.6) file
+server, but it might not be limited to that configuration alone.
+Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the files' data to disk
+quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is left ``busy'' for
+several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping itself. This causes
+the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped Emacs excutable to
+fail with the above message.
In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the
machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make
options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as
`/etc/auto.home'.
-Alternatively, when "make install" fails due to this problem, you
-could wait for a few seconds and then type "make install" again. In
-one particular case, waiting for 10 or more seconds seemed to work
-around the problem.
+Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for
+a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case,
+waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed
+to work around the problem.
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