serialize the reconfigure target ?

[David Holmes]

I naively assumed this would work:

make reconfigure images

There should be a way to serialize the top-level set of targets without 
serializing all the sub-targets. That way this would work, as would:

make clean-foo foo

which is something I (used to!) use a lot.

And while I'm still complaining about the parallel activity the build 
logs truly are a mess that needs to be fixed. In particular finding 
build failures is now quite a challenge. :(

Cheers,
David