RE: does make behave serially when serially invoked

[Mark Galeck (CW)]

>    If any of the .o files are up to date (ie: if they are younger
than their corresponding .c file) the rule won't be invoked, and
therefore you won't have the object appear in the file.  


Yes it was understood, that I wasn't doing anything this terminally stupid :)  
Yes I clean first, then make, then I sometimes see a few filenames missing.   
The reason why I know the files are in fact there, is because if I only do the 
"missing" file 

>make foobar.o

rather than 
>make all


then foobar.c does get listed in srcs.