Unreliability of the build system

[Jan Stolarek]

Geoffrey, I think your errors are slightly different than mine. Mine always happend when running 
the testsuite, yours seem to be from a different stage of the validation. I will pull the latest 
HEAD and validate, but I'm not sure whether my results will mean anything - failures I was 
getting seemed quite random (i.e. sometimes they appeared and sometimes not). Do you get these 
errors every time you run validation?

Jan