Hello any and all.
I was wondering if anyone has any plans to make the actual 'make' command work across multiple connected PC systems, via networking of some kind. It could be wireless networking, ethernet, or even networking through thunderbolt, usb 4, or even fiber. All that matters is that each networked PC has access to the same files.
For example if you want multiple PC's compiling the linux kernel source code for example, then each PC needs to see the same Linux kernel files, and directory structure. The main system compiler, or build server PC that has all of the kernel source code, would also need to have something like an NFS server configured, and running on that main build PC as well. That way each connected PC, will be able to help out with compiling the source code as well. Just as long as each PC has access to the exact same files via an NFS client, which needs to be setup as well. To speed things up even more, you could make sure all of the build programs are installed on each client PC as well, like gcc, g++, as, ar, ld, ...
I was thinking of using open MPI for which would send each build instruction to any available open slot via MPI.
Has anyone attempted anything like this before? If so, where is that information for make? Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.