Hi Diman,
This is the email I sent to another fella who was also interested, you should get in touch with him so you don't duplicate too much work. See also my comments about how to do it. ] To: Hiten Pandya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Subject: Re: Project idea: Put PVM in /usr/bin/make ] In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:09:54 PST." ] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:33:04 +0100 ] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] From: Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] ] In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hiten Pandya w ] rites: ] >> My suggestion consequently still stands: Please ] >> someone, add PVM ] >> to /usr/bin/make. ] >> ] > ] >hi, ] >just wondering.. what level of skill is needed to add ] >this functionality? if it is pretty simple accord. to ] >what you are saying.. I don't mind doing it in the ] >next couple of weeks.. ] ] It's not very hard actually: ] ] Find "pvmgmake" on sourceforge, that's a guy who has done it ] to gmake. ] ] Get yourself going with PVM on a single machine. ] ] (optional: Get PVM going on multiple machines or on multiple ] jails on one machine). ] ] Get pvmgmake compiling under FreeBSD (there's a bit of automake/ ] autoconf version crap to this, I can give you the details when ] you get this far). ] ] Get my patches to pvmgmake and get them going. ] ] Then, do the same thing to /usr/bin/make. ] In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, diman writes: > > >I found it interesting. I have 3 idle boxes out here and >friend of mine has ~20, and parallel make is a dream. >Don't know about someone else, I'm giving your proposal >a try.. :-) > > >On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >> /usr/bin/make already have hooks for remote execution of jobs when >> running parallel. All that is missing before we can do distributed >> parallel make worlds is that somebody writes the necessary hooks >> based on PVM... >> >> This is a really simple task, and the best of it all is that one >> does not need a cluster of machines to test it: Using jail(8) you >> can run a PVM cluster of any size on one machine. >> >> Any takers ? >> >> -- >> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >> > > -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
