bug#7560: 24.0.50; 'bzr status' blocking making of GNU Emacs

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Anyway, to me, the question is: why is the build process running bzr
>> status at all.
>
> Because many file ops, in particular save-buffer, in a versioned
> directory do that automatically.

Then I'd ask what the point of having any of that enabled when
building Emacs is. It cannot do anything useful, only slow the build
down; so why not eg bind vc-handled-backends to nil in
batch-byte-compile.