[ale] compiled system calls versus shell scripts

[Geoffrey]

Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Geoffrey wrote:

>>For example, you know networking needs to be up before Samba is started.
>>  But, startup of samba and nfs could be parallel processes.
> 
> 
> Make is a little smarter than that. EG. if you have a copplex web of
> dependencies, rather than just a few things that can happen in parallel,
> make might do better.

How so?  You still have to create the make file with the specified 
dependencies.  How does that differ from building a script with the 
dependency checking built in as well?  What is that make will do 
differently?

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