On Sun, 17 Sep 1995 18:29:31 GMT 
 christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

 > As part of fixing the documented and non functional -j flag which
 > allows you to run multiple jobs in parallel, I have to fix first all
 > library rules that strip their objects. This is because they all write
 > their intermediate output to a.out which breaks when multiple compiles
 > are running in the same directory.
 > 
 > Is that ok?

I don't see any obvious problems withh such a change.  What do you have 
in mind, specifically?

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