autoconf-2.61's make fails with make -j2 and up

[Chris Pickett]

Hi,

autoconf-2.61's make doesn't like make -j2 and up on an 8-way AIX box. 
I've never encountered this problem on an SMP Linux machine.  Just FYI.

milan ~/pkgs/autoconf-2.61 $ make -j2
Making all in bin
make[1]: Entering directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61/bin'
make[2]: Entering directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61'
rm -f autom4te autom4te.tmp
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../bin/autom4te', needed by 
`autoconf.in'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
sed -e 's|@address@hidden|/usr/bin/bash|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|/usr/bin/perl|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|/testarossa/pickett/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/bin|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|/testarossa/pickett/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/share/autoconf|g' 
-e 's|@address@hidden|/testarossa/pickett/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|'`echo autoconf | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|'`echo autoheader | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|'`echo autom4te | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|/testarossa/pickett/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1/bin/m4|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|--debugfile|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|nawk|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|2.61|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|GNU Autoconf|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|Generated from autom4te.in; do not edit by 
hand.|g' `test -f ./autom4te.in || echo ./`autom4te.in >autom4te.tmp
chmod +x autom4te.tmp
chmod a-w autom4te.tmp
mv autom4te.tmp autom4te
make[1]: Leaving directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61/bin'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

milan ~/pkgs/autoconf-2.61 $ make -j1
Making all in bin
make[1]: Entering directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61/bin'
make[2]: Entering directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61'
cd ../lib && make  autom4te.cfg
make[2]: Entering directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61/lib'
make[3]: Entering directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61'
rm -f autom4te.cfg autom4te.tmp
sed -e 's|@address@hidden|/usr/bin/bash|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|/usr/bin/perl|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|/testarossa/pickett/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/bin|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|/testarossa/pickett/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/share/autoconf|g' 
-e 's|@address@hidden|/testarossa/pickett/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|'`echo autoconf | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|'`echo autoheader | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|'`echo autom4te | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|/testarossa/pickett/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1/bin/m4|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|nawk|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|2.61|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|GNU 
Autoconf|g' ./autom4te.in >autom4te.tmp
chmod a-w autom4te.tmp
mv autom4te.tmp autom4te.cfg
make[2]: Leaving directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61/lib'
cd ../lib/m4sugar && make  version.m4
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61/lib/m4sugar'
make[3]: Entering directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/testarossa/pickett/pkgs/autoconf-2.61'
{                                       \
          echo '# This file is part of -*- Autoconf -*-.'; \
          echo '# Version of Autoconf.'; \
          echo '# Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002'; \
          echo '# Free Software Foundation, Inc.'; \
          echo ;\
          echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_NAME],      [GNU Autoconf])'; \
          echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_TARNAME],   [autoconf])'; \
          echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_VERSION],   [2.61])'; \
          echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_STRING],    [GNU Autoconf 2.61])'; \
          echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_BUGREPORT], 
address@hidden)'; \
        } >version.m4
[...]
success!

Chris