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From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: distributed make(1)?
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Date: 17 May 89 15:19:06 GMT
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In article <5491@hubcap.clemson.edu> eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) writes:
>There are several concurrent make(1) programs around.  There is one
>on our Sequent and I think Encore has one on the Mulitmax, but I've not

>What I would hope to see is that these programs be made widely available
>to the Unix community.  Rather than keep them as company value-add-ons,

Just pick up a copy of GNUMAKE, which in the last few versions has parallel
make features added.  GNUMAKE has the advantage that you don't have to
sprinkle in '&' tokens, it just reads the standard makefile and goes.
It of course has the best advantage of being FREE, and remaining that way!
I have a patch to cause GNUMAKE to read the PARALLEL environment variable
as the Sequent parallel make does, but I wouldn't dream of putting in the
'&' support.  The patch is a trivial hack.

Just for the record, Sequent introduced the idea of parallel make in their
product and deserves due credit.  The idea caught on with the other makers
of general purpose parallel computers very quickly.
brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp