Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ksr!benson
From: benson@ksr.UUCP (Benson Margulies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Parallelism of Make
Message-ID: <206@ksr.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 87 14:57:28 GMT
Reply-To: benson@ksr.UUCP ()
Organization: Kendall Square Research, Cambridge MA
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I have seen two advanced replacements for make -- mk and nmake, both
from AT&T. Both are incompatible with 4.3 and SysVr3 make. Both offer
partial conversion tools, in the forward direction only. 

Thus, neither is a solution that allows a user to bring an application
from a machine with a 'vanilla' make to a multiprocessor and type

   make

and get the benefit of the parallel processor. The user must make some
conversion investment.

In the case of mk, the syntax is close to that of make, and so one
might imagine implementing make as a filter that processed the
makefile and passed it along to mk. In the case of nmake, this is out
of the question.

Has anyone else gotten embroiled in this? Has anyone a compatible
parallel make, for licence of free?

--benson


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Benson I. Margulies                         Kendall Square Research Corp.
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