Parallel make: does everyone get this error right at the start?

[Dave Korn]

  Doing a parallel make in an entirely new and freshly-configured $objdir, the
first thing I see is:

$ make -j4 2>&1 | tee build-parallel.log
sed: can't read stage_last: No such file or directory
[ -f stage_final ] || echo stage3 > stage_final


  Does everyone get this, or do I have a platform-related bug to track down?

    cheers,
      DaveK