I was seeing various issues with parallel make, mainly due to to what was likely partially installed headers. If you change into the source directory and "NOISY=1 make ../obj/apt-pkg/sourcelist.opic" in apt-pkg, you'll see it doesn't have any dependencies on the headers being installed. This patch fixes that so things build correctly. RP 2012/3/19 Upstream-Status: Pending Index: apt-1.2.24/buildlib/library.mak =================================================================== --- apt-1.2.24.orig/buildlib/library.mak +++ apt-1.2.24/buildlib/library.mak @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ $(LIB)/lib$(LIBRARY).so.$(MAJOR).$(MINOR # Compilation rules vpath %.cc $(SUBDIRS) -$(OBJ)/%.opic: %.cc $(LIBRARYDEPENDS) +$(OBJ)/%.opic: %.cc $(LIBRARYDEPENDS) $($(LOCAL)-HEADERS) echo Compiling $< to $@ $(CXX) -c $(INLINEDEPFLAG) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXSTD) $(CXXFLAGS) $(PICFLAGS) -o $@ '$(abspath $<)' $(DoDep)