> 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?

It seems to be pretty much required...  go for it.

	--jtc