[Rd] Package build errors with parallel make on Ubuntu 18.04

[Jeroen Ooms]

After upgrading to R-4.2 we are seeing package build errors on Ubuntu 18.04:
   make[1]: *** read jobs pipe: No such file or directory.
or:
   make[1]: *** write jobserver: Bad file descriptor.  Stop.

The problem seems to get triggered by the use of parallel make, but I
cannot find the underlying cause. It does not happen on ubuntu 20 or 22, so
I suspect the version of 'make' is related.

Attached a dockerfile with a minimal reproducible example (run with: docker
build .)