diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 29787ca505094754c0ec12c6a0ddc6a1a0afe127..56942278b384102caf6d420eb86a0dd32844e78a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-02-18  Jason Merrill  <jason@redhat.com>
+
+	* Makefile.tpl (check-c++): Allow parallelism.
+
 2003-02-16  Gerald Pfeifer  <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
 
 	* MAINTAINERS: Remove John Carr (who never actually had access to
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index b3d2d2756828acde7a14acd0136d691c1915f017..7e420f74e548e52ce55ee3162cb9e181e808c0f0 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -7293,7 +7293,8 @@ check-gcc-c++:
 	fi
 
 .PHONY: check-c++
-check-c++: check-target-libstdc++-v3 check-gcc-c++
+check-c++:
+	$(MAKE) check-target-libstdc++-v3 check-gcc-c++ NOTPARALLEL=parallel-ok
 
 .PHONY: install-gcc maybe-install-gcc
 maybe-install-gcc:
diff --git a/Makefile.tpl b/Makefile.tpl
index baf1afa24d1af631fcb0c1b174bf6d4de9a58fa7..fe3ecec6cd51d6d1e1c0e0e64aaef2fc251f87f4 100644
--- a/Makefile.tpl
+++ b/Makefile.tpl
@@ -1233,7 +1233,8 @@ check-gcc-c++:
 	fi
 
 .PHONY: check-c++
-check-c++: check-target-libstdc++-v3 check-gcc-c++
+check-c++:
+	$(MAKE) check-target-libstdc++-v3 check-gcc-c++ NOTPARALLEL=parallel-ok
 
 .PHONY: install-gcc maybe-install-gcc
 maybe-install-gcc: