Without wanting to turn this into a commercial/advert you might want to consider trying the Electric Cloud Huddle beta since it works with multiple machines in a convenient way and deals with the problems of getting correct parallel builds. It is also free for now at least.
Sorry for that :) On 29 Apr 2015 11:20 pm, "Paul Smith" <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 13:50 -0600, Ryan P. Steele wrote: > > The multithreaded version of make (-j#) is wonderful, and we have made > > great use of it. Because we're dealing with some very large code, > > however, it would be great to be able to parallelize compilation over > > multiple machines. I can't seem to find any option for doing this, > > though. Does such functionality exist? It would appear to be a > > fairly straightforward extension of multithreading, especially on a > > network file system, but thus far, we haven't been able to make it > > work. Any help would be appreciated. > > Just to be clear, GNU make is not multithreaded. It simply spawns > multiple processes and lets them run in parallel. > > GNU make has no built-in capability to use multiple machines: > conceptually it may be a straightforward extension but the effort needed > to communicate between multiple systems over a network, send and receive > results reliably, kill jobs when someone stops the main make process > with ^C, etc. is FAR out of GNU make's current wheelhouse. > > You can get a very cheap implementation, if you're willing to live with > many prerequisite configuration requirements such as a networked > filesystem, SSH access that doesn't require a password, etc. by writing > your own script to forward the job via SSH and setting the GNU make > SHELL variable to point to your script. > > Luckily, if you are building C or C++ code someone has already done all > the necessary work for you. I recommend you investigate the distcc > package: https://code.google.com/p/distcc/ > > Cheers! > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-make mailing list > Bug-make@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make >
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