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From: huntting@boulder.colorado.edu (Brad Huntting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: an NCS distributed make utility ?
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Date: 4 May 90 20:23:32 GMT
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Has anyone thought of altering the 'make' to support parallel 
compilation, using NCS?  It's been done for other platforms.

The following is from the Dynix (seqent's) man page for make.

PARALLEL SUPPORT
     Make includes a parallel processing ability.  If the string
     separating a target from its prerequisites is `:&' or `::&',
     make can run the command sequences to make the prerequisites
     simultaneously.  If two names are separated by an ampersand
     on the right side of a colon, those two may be created in
     parallel.

It would seem that this idea is a perfect match for NCS.  (Except
perhaps in the eyes of s/w sales people [personal opinions
deleted]).

Run make from any workstation, and compilations would be done on
available authorized nodes.  My understanding is that location
brokers could direct compilations to not run on workstations which
were in use.  (Please correct me if I'm mistaken)

#include "standard_disclaimer.h" /* not that it's needed... */
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brad
    huntting@sel.bldrdoc.gov
    huntting@boulder.colorado.edu