../../build_mouse-n_debug_nrf52840dk/mouse-n/nrf_log_frontend.c.o ../../build_mouse-n_debug_nrf52840dk/mouse-n/nrf_log_str_formatter.c.o When make is used with parallelism enabled stdout is not synchronised by default. So some output from previous make target is catched by above macro which cause linker to show error. Additional lines looks like: make[1]: Entering directory ../../build_mouse-n_debug_nrf52840dk/mouse-n/nrf_log_frontend.c.o ../../build_mouse-n_debug_nrf52840dk/mouse-n/nrf_log_str_formatter.c.o