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Yes you can build over a chunk boundary and things might work out fine, but two neighboring chunks are not guaranteed to update close together(in time). If you can avoid building over a chunk boundary then you might as well not build over it.
His problem getting fixed by rebuilding it also points to it being a chunk problem.