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