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Document the problems with "Text file busy" due to buggy NFS servers.

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find the jpeg library.

(If you need the static version of the jpeg library as well, you can
configure libjpeg with both `--enable-static' and `--enable-shared'
options.

* Some accented ISO-8859-1 characters or umlauts are displayed as | or _.

Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1).  If the problem persists with
other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software

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find the jpeg library.

(If you need the static version of the jpeg library as well, you can
configure libjpeg with both `--enable-static' and `--enable-shared'
options.

* 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.

If the NFS server runs on Solaris, apply the Solaris patch 105379-05
(Sunos 5.6: /kernel/misc/nfssrv patch).  If that doesn't work, or if
you have a different version of the OS or the NFS server, you can
force the NFS server to use 1KB blocks, which was reported to fix the
problem albeit at a price of slowing down file I/O.  You can force 1KB
blocks by specifying the "-o  rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the
`mount' command, or by adding ",rsize=1024,wsize=1024" to the mount
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.

* Some accented ISO-8859-1 characters or umlauts are displayed as | or _.

Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1).  If the problem persists with
other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software