Hi all, While building a Buildroot project, I ran into an occasional Bird build failure. In a parallel make environment, nest can try to write proto-build.c to objdir/nest before that directory exists. I think this patch fixes: --- nest/Makefile.orig 2024-04-08 11:47:50.917918157 +0100 +++ nest/Makefile 2024-04-08 11:47:59.167838713 +0100 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ $(all-daemon) $(cf-local) -$(objdir)/nest/proto-build.c: $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)) +$(objdir)/nest/proto-build.c: $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)) $(objdir)/.dir-stamp $(E)echo GEN $@ $(Q)echo "$(patsubst %,void %_build(void); ,$(PROTO_BUILD)) void protos_build_gen(void) { $(patsubst %, %_build(); ,$(PROTO_BUILD))}" > $@ -- Jim Hague - jim.hague@acm.org Never trust a computer you can't lift.