wesnoth fails with MAKEOPTS=-j2 when installing wesnoth.destkop into /usr/share/applications: Making install in icons make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/big/portage/tmp/portage/games-strategy/wesnoth-1.2.4/work/wesnoth-1.2.4/icons' make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/big/portage/tmp/portage/games-strategy/wesnoth-1.2.4/work/wesnoth-1.2.4/icons' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. test -z "/usr/share/applications" || /bin/mkdir -p "/mnt/big/portage/tmp/portage/games-strategy/wesnoth-1.2.4/image//usr/share/applications" test -z "/usr/share/applications" || /bin/mkdir -p "/mnt/big/portage/tmp/portage/games-strategy/wesnoth-1.2.4/image//usr/share/applications" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'wesnoth.desktop' '/mnt/big/portage/tmp/portage/games-strategy/wesnoth-1.2.4/image//usr/share/applications/wesn… /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'wesnoth.desktop' '/mnt/big/portage/tmp/portage/games-strategy/wesnoth-1.2.4/image//usr/share/applications/wesn… /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/mnt/big/portage/tmp/portage/games-strategy/wesnoth-1.2.4/image//usr/share/applications/wesno… make[2]: *** [install-dist_gnome1desktopDATA] Error 1 Installs ok with MAKEOPTS="-j1" IIRC I had the same problem with 1.2.3 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: MAKEOPTS=-j2 emerge wesnoth (or setting MAKEOPTS=-j2 in /etc/make.conf)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 159355 ***