UPDATE: one year later The redirection issues described in this report were also making it impossible to try the Automake testsuite with parallel make, as with:
make check AM_TESTSUITE_MAKE="make -j8" Racy, random failures were in fact often present, making it hard to trust the results of the command above. Which was especially annoying because, with today's fast multicore machines, is becoming more and more important to ensure Automake-generated Makefiles work correctly when run in parallel mode. The issue has been fixed for the testsuite as a whole with a recent set of commits, the most significant of is commit d19eb85c, "tests: use append mode to capture parallel make output": <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?h=d19eb85c> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-05/msg00129.html> Regards, Stefano