https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670127 documents the problem.  I checked git master and it's still a problem.  You can reproduce it like so:


[autogen...]
Now type `make' to compile
desrt@moonpix:~/code/shared-mime-info$ while make -j8; do make clean; done

to see something like:

mv: cannot stat `.deps/update_mime_database-update-mime-database.Tpo': No such file or directory
make: *** [update_mime_database-update-mime-database.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....