From: Robert Bowles Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: Re: Parallel make Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 00:51:50 -0400 Organization: Organization? Message-Id: <35DE4E66.FE1EB637@op.net> References: <6rcpov$qep@canyon.sr.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It is clever (using 'SHELL='), but it doesn't scale very well... Running w/'-j4' I only get about 2.4*speedup. If you use fully-qualified paths in you makefiles, you don't save on that fork/exec you thought you weren't doing. John_Cavanaugh@NOSPAM.hp.com wrote: > > Raymond Fares Jr wrote: > : Why work on such a project when one already exists. Its called ppmake > : and I have used it with satisfactory results. The web page is > : http://www3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~zimmerms/ppmake/ > : I hope this helps. It took me a long time to find this when I was > : lookign for it. > > I looked at your web site but one of the problems with this > implementation is that it requires TCSH. If it just depended on a > normal shell like ksh or sh I think it would be a better fit for most > organizations. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Cavanaugh Hewlett-Packard Company > Project Engineer 1400 Fountaingrove Pkwy > EESof Division Santa Rosa, CA 95403-1799 > > Email: cavanaug@sr.hp.com Phone: 707-577-4780 > 707-577-3948 (Fax) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > A man is what he believes. > -- Anton Chekov > -----------------------------------------------------------------------