On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:46:32AM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Mike Jentges wrote:
> > I always attributed it to the fact that certain things had to be made
> > in certain order in certain circumstances. Other jobs it doesn't
> > matter. Almost like it would get ahead of itself and what it needed to
> > do a task was not done yet. ??
> 
> I thought make was supposed to be smart enough to compile stuff in the
> right order so make -j would work.. ah well.  :)

Only if the Makefile was written correctly.  Many make files aren't.
This is one of the reasons behind kbuild 2.5.  

Nate (the other one)