[bug#43208] [PATCH] gnu: emacs-ess: Update to 20.09.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Tim & Nicolas,

Any update on this?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Tim Howes <timhowes@lavabit.com> skribis:

>> BTW, when trying to build the package, I get the following failure:
>>       INFO     Scraping files for ess-autoloads.el...
>>     .../lisp/ess-autoloads.el locked by nixbld@localh... (pid 103): (s, q, 
>> p, ?)?
>>     Cannot resolve lock conflict in batch mode
>>     make[1]: *** [Makefile:62: ess-autoloads.el] Error 255
>> Can you build the package successfully?
>
> It builds successfully sometimes, but fails sporadically due to this
> file locking issue. It seems like, the way the Makefile is set up,
> it's trying to build the ess-autoloads target multiple times in
> parallel, which is causing it to fail if two processes are trying to
> write to the file at the same time. I'll take a look later to see if I
> can prevent the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim