On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 03:01:03PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > http://marc.info/?l=pptpclient-devel&m=132102054518031 This is indeed rather unexpected behaviour of make! BTW I think your patch is incomplete, since it will create an incomplete config.h if the disk runs out of space. I think this would be better, and should also avoid the parallel make problem: config.h: echo "/* text added by Makefile target config.h */" > $@-t echo "#define PPTP_LINUX_VERSION \"$(VERSION)$(RELEASE)\"" >> $@-t echo "#define PPPD_BINARY \"$(PPPD)\"" >> $@-t echo "#define IP_BINARY \"$(IP)\"" >> $@-t mv $@-t $@ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel