Jonathan Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Could you please explain why the patch is needed? autom4te and >> $(top_builddir)/bin/autom4te are the same file, so why is it necessary >> to mention it by both names? > > Yup, it's the same file, but without this, you'll get a message like > "No rule to make target ../bin/autom4te" when using make -j N.
That's strange. Can you please investigate why this occurs, e.g., by tracing or debugging 'make'? Surely this is a 'make' bug? If so, I'd like to understand the problem better, since I suspect it'll affect other makefiles too. (And if it's not a 'make' bug I also want to understand it better....)
