diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e219e9b2e..b18b19670 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-02-18  Jason Merrill  <jason@redhat.com>
+
+	* Makefile.tpl (check-c++): Allow parallelism.
+
 2003-02-17  Andrew Cagney  <ac131313@redhat.com>
 
 	* configure: Regenerate using autoconf 000227.
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index b3d2d2756..7e420f74e 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 baf1afa24..fe3ecec6c 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: