When I want to build Automake (current Git version) with a parallel make ("make -j12"):
MAKEINFO doc/automake-history.info GEN bin/automake GEN bin/aclocal GEN t/ax/shell-no-trail-bslash GEN t/ax/cc-no-c-o GEN doc/aclocal.1 GEN runtest GEN doc/automake.1 GEN doc/amhello-1.0.tar.gz make[1]: Entering directory '/home/vlefevre/software/automake' GEN lib/Automake/Config.pm GEN t/ax/test-defs.sh find: ‘./conf272281.dir’: No such file or directory find: ‘./conf272280.dir’: No such file or directory find: ‘./conf272301.dir’: No such file or directory make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/vlefevre/software/automake' Updating ./doc/version.texi MAKEINFO doc/automake.info GEN bin/aclocal-1.16 GEN doc/aclocal-1.16.1 GEN bin/automake-1.16 GEN doc/automake-1.16.1 +++++++++++make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 1 jobserver tokens available; should be 12! -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)