PVM Gmake

1. Introduction
2. Features
3. How to Build
4. Tested on
5. Download
6. CVS Repository
7. Forums

Introduction

This version of GNU make can use PVM to distribute jobs over a heterogeneous cluster


Look at the SourceForge PVM-Gmake project page

Features

• Use the standard -j  and --load-average option to spawn in other host
• TARGET_ARCH and TARGET_HOST can be defined in the makefile to force spawn to an other architecture/host
• The priority (nice) is propagated to children
• The load-balancing is now done by the make itself and it can manage load average option (-l, --load-average or --max-load)
• multi-target synchronization using +
  target1 + target2: prereq1 ...
• auto-dependencies (see autodepend.sf.net)
• file audit (see autodepend.sf.net)

How to Build

1. ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --bindir=$PVM_ROOT/bin/$PVM_ARCH \
   --libexecdir=$PVM_ROOT/bin/$PVM_ARCH \
   --with-pvm
   
   you can add this if you want to enable autodependency tracking system
   --enable-autodepend \
   --libdir=$PVM_ROOT/lib/$PVM_ARCH
   
   if you want to preserve original make you can rename the pvm one
   --program-prefix=pvm
   
2. make && make install
   
if you want to rename mannualy make rename also rename make_pvm and make_avg keeping the '_pvm' and '_avg' suffixes

3. If you are in a heterogeneous cluster, a wrapper script can be helpfull to elect the right make binary
   exec $PVM_ROOT/bin/$PVM_ARCH/make MAKE=$0 $*
   

Tested on

• SUN4SOL2 : Solaris 2.5 et 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
• HPPA : HP-UX-B.10.20
• LINUX : Mandrake 6.0, Rehat 9.0, Fedora3
  

Download

Download from sourceForge

CVS Repository

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Anonymous CVS Access

This project's SourceForge CVS repository can be checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instruction set. The module you wish to check out must be specified as the modulename. When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.pvmgmake.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/pvmgmake login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.pvmgmake.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/pvmgmake co pvmgmake

Updates from within the module's directory do not need the -d parameter.

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