tips on working with 2.95.2 sources (parallel make, SGI)?

[DJ Delorie]

> 1) We tried building gcc 2.95.2 from scratch, using gmake's
> parallel make option ("-j"), but the build fails.  Has anyone looked
> into this?  Is there a patch available that will fix the makefile
> dependencies so that a parallel make completes successfully?

There was a lot of work done since then to get parallel builds working
correctly.  We haven't looked at previous branches (I suppose because
it's easy enough to just use -j1 ;) but the techniques used in the
current sources should be applicable to the branches, if you can
identify what the specific failure is.