Re: Parallel make across multiple connected systems.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sean Godsell <sgodsell@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:00:27 -0500
> 
> 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.

This is already supported, and has been since long ago.  You just need
to implement a few functions, see remote-stub.c.  One such
implementation, for the Customs daemon, is already available, see
remote-cstms.c.