Re: Make and Clusters

[Alberto Luaces]

David Delahaye writes:

> Hello,
>
> I wonder how the make command is compatible with clusters. I know the
> "-j" option, which allows us to run several jobs simultaneously and
> uses the several cores of a given processor. But if we have several
> nodes of computation of a cluster, is the command "make -j" able to
> run over these nodes (transparently for the user)? I know there are
> specific commands to run jobs on a cluster, I would like to know how
> "make -j" is compatible with these commands. Thanks in advance for
> your help.
>

Hi, David,

For those building problems among several machines, you usually use
distcc+make (http://distcc.org).

-- 
Alberto