On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 14:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> And the answer is ... it's a gmake bug. Apparently introduced in 3.82.
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30653
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835424
>
> So I think .NOTPARALLEL is just masking the true problem, but
> nonetheless it's a problem. And given that the bug report on savannah
> has been ignored for two years, we should not hold our breath for a fix
> to appear upstream (much less propagate to everyone using 3.82).
So does the issue go away when using GNU make 3.81?