Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!comp.vuw.ac.nz!mark From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: -j broken in make 3.56 Message-ID: <8910032201.AA26255@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 3 Oct 89 22:01:49 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 28 Somewhere between version 3.54 and 3.56 the -j option of make stopped working. running make on its own source gives the following: the-taj% gmake -j2 -d [...] Finished dependencies of target file `glob.o'. Must remake target `glob.o'. cc -g -c glob.c Failed to remake target file `glob.o'. Finished dependencies of target file `make'. Giving up on target file `make'. Finished dependencies of target file `all'. Giving up on target file `all'. gmake: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... The "Failed to remake target file `glob.o'." appears before the cc has completed. This occurs on all the systems I tried. sun3 sunOS 4.0.3 hp300 MORE/bsd pyramid OSx 4.0 hp300 HP-UX 6.5 hp800 HP-UX 3.1 mark -- mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz | ...!uunet!vuwcomp!mark | DEV_BSIZE forever!