I experience the same as Paul autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61 GNU Make 3.81 autoconf make -j3 . . gcc -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -o dmyext.o -c dmyext.c ./miniruby -I./lib ./enc/make_encdb.rb ./enc encdb.h make: ./miniruby: Command not found make: *** [encdb.h] Error 127 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... unfinished jobs are : 29802 pts/1 S+ 0:00 make -j3 29885 pts/1 S+ 0:00 gcc -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -o parse.o -c parse.c 29886 pts/1 R+ 3:10 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.0/cc1 -quiet -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 parse.c -quiet -dumpbase parse.c -march=i686 -mtune=generic -auxbase-strip parse.o -O2 -fPIC -o - 29887 pts/1 S+ 0:00 as -Qy -o parse.o - when done ... ls -lRt |head -n 5 .: total 8728 -rw-r--r-- 1 jeyzu users 222848 2008-04-02 07:57 parse.o -rw-r--r-- 1 jeyzu users 71968 2008-04-02 07:43 vm.o -rw-r--r-- 1 jeyzu users 667 2008-04-02 07:43 dmyext.o make -j3 gcc -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -o compile.o -c compile.c gcc -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -o iseq.o -c iseq.c ./miniruby -I./lib ./enc/make_encdb.rb ./enc encdb.h make: ./miniruby: Command not found make: *** [encdb.h] Error 127 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... ls -lRt |head -n 5 .: total 8848 -rw-r--r-- 1 jeyzu users 75116 2008-04-02 08:04 compile.o -rw-r--r-- 1 jeyzu users 44144 2008-04-02 08:04 iseq.o -rw-r--r-- 1 jeyzu users 222848 2008-04-02 07:57 parse.o make -j3 gcc -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fPIC -L. -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic main.o dln.o dmyencoding.o dmytranscode.o miniprelude.o array.o bignum.o class.o compar.o complex.o dir.o enum.o enumerator.o error.o eval.o load.o proc.o file.o gc.o hash.o inits.o io.o marshal.o math.o numeric.o object.o pack.o parse.o process.o prec.o random.o range.o rational.o re.o regcomp.o regenc.o regerror.o regexec.o regparse.o regsyntax.o ruby.o signal.o sprintf.o st.o string.o struct.o time.o util.o variable.o version.o blockinlining.o compile.o debug.o iseq.o vm.o vm_dump.o thread.o cont.o id.o ascii.o us_ascii.o unicode.o utf_8.o strlcpy.o strlcat.o dmyext.o -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm -o miniruby ./miniruby -I./lib ./enc/make_encdb.rb ./enc encdb.h make: ./miniruby: Command not found make: *** [encdb.h] Error 127 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... bigdaddy jeyzu trunk $ ls -lRt |head -n 5 .: total 10384 -rwxr-xr-x 1 jeyzu users 1565487 2008-04-02 08:05 miniruby* -rw-r--r-- 1 jeyzu users 75116 2008-04-02 08:04 compile.o -rw-r--r-- 1 jeyzu users 44144 2008-04-02 08:04 iseq.o obviously next run is the good one -- Zurcher Jérémy rte. Cully 29 1091 Grandvaux http://tzurtch.pas.nu +41 (0) 79 599 84 27