Comment 4 for bug 516506

The directory is not a symlink and we reproduced the bug in two workstations with three different accounts. However we just realized this is NFS related. If this test is carried out locally it works, when run on an NFS share, it breaks.

Note that although this could be an NFS bug we only saw problems with make, so perhaps it is still a make bug?

The NFS version of the client:

$ apt-cache policy nfs-common
nfs-common:
  Installed: 1:1.2.0-2ubuntu8
  Candidate: 1:1.2.0-2ubuntu8
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.2.0-2ubuntu8 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The uname output is:
Linux vfa 2.6.31-17-generic-pae #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:23:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

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On the server side we have:

apt-cache policy nfs-kernel-server
nfs-kernel-server:
  Installed: 1:1.1.2-4ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 1:1.1.2-4ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.1.2-4ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:1.1.2-4ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

The server side's ubuntu version is:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid

uname output:

Linux vfs2 2.6.27-7-server #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 20:16:57 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux