On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 11:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i suspected as much, but you can see how the way that sentence is
> phrased in the book would lead someone to a noticeably different
> conclusion, right?

Yes, the language was a little sloppy.  But that doesn't stop it being a
much needed book.   The two essential books are the FSF's GNU Make
manual and the Mecklenburg book.

> certainly, if you were doing a parallel make, make would have the
> freedom to process the dependencies any way it wanted, no?

Precisely.

John.
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