Bob Tanner wrote:
> I've been playing with make's -j capability. -Most- of the time this works
> great, but every now and then certain things just don't compile when I do a 
> -j 2, -but- compile files with a -j 1 or no -j option.
> 
> Anyone know why this is?
> 
> What do make constructs cause this to fail?
> 
> 

usually failures like this are a dependency issue that make doesn't know 
about (as in no make depend, or dependency not listed for a few files).

Eric