Re: [PATCH] parallel build

[Paul Eggert]

Jonathan Schleifer <address@hidden> writes:

>> Could you please explain why the patch is needed?  autom4te and
>> $(top_builddir)/bin/autom4te are the same file, so why is it necessary
>> to mention it by both names?
>
> Yup, it's the same file, but without this, you'll get a message like
> "No rule to make target ../bin/autom4te" when using make -j N.

That's strange.  Can you please investigate why this occurs, e.g., by
tracing or debugging 'make'?

Surely this is a 'make' bug?  If so, I'd like to understand the
problem better, since I suspect it'll affect other makefiles too.
(And if it's not a 'make' bug I also want to understand it better....)