Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: loitz@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Martin Loitz)
Subject: Re: Make-pvm?
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
Date: 7 Oct 1996 17:40:13 GMT
Message-ID: <53bf9t$5h3@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>

Zachary Vonler (zvonler@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: I would like to use PVM to speed up large compiles.  Has anyone else
: done work into parallelizing make in this way, or does anyone think
: this would be a bad idea for some reason?  I know that GNU make already
: supports parallel compiling, and I am planning on extending its
: functionality.

Lmake is a parallel make utility that does exactly what you need:

Lmake speeds up program compilations by running commands
simultaneously on coupled hosts. Lmake is based on GNU make and
provides compatibility to standard make programs in most cases.  You
simply run `lmake' instead of your standard make. For exporting the
commands to the remote machines, Lmake requires PVM 3 of Version 3.3.6
or higher.

Lmake has been tested on Sun4 with SunOS 4.1.1, 4.1.3, and on
HP9000/400, HP9000/700 with HP-UX 9.0. It does not run on Solaris so
far. The installation of Lmake is easy and can be done without root
permission.

You can copy Lmake from 

	 ftp://ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/lmake-0.6.tar.gz

More information on Lmake is available at

	       http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/~loitz/lmake.html

Bug reports, suggestions, and comments are welcome. Please contact

M.Loitz@tu-bs.de

Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks,
Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.


