Re: using ppmake

[Robert S. <rsc...@un...>]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:15:47PM +0200, Andreas Fladischer wrote:
> hi!
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> i installed ppmake3-pre3 and try to compile several programms; first of=
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> all i tried to compile rsync which worked perfect. afterwards i compiled=
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> the binutils 2.14 and 2.-16 where a error occoured. here you can see the=
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> complete error:
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> Your virtual machine configuration is:
> pc73         LINUX     1000   1 client
> pc92         LINUX     1000   1 client
> pc55         LINUX     1000   1 client
> 3 hosts with a maximum of 3 clients.
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> Spawned 1 client on pc73 with tid 262200
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> Spawned 1 client on pc92 with tid 524290
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> Spawned 1 client on pc55 with tid 786434
> libpvm [t80003]: PVM error : Error 0
> Error:
> Variable PPM_DISTRIBUTE_TID not defined
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> i hope someone can tell me why this error occours!

Sorry for the late answer.

This error originates from the fact that the environment is not handed down
correctly by the make system.

One (out of many) possible reasons is that ppmake uses a somewhat ugly
mechanism to detect whether it is running as the main dispatcher or as a
simple connector to one of the clients within the cluster.  If a make system
does some strange things it might confuse this mechanism resulting in start=
up
of the wrong subprocesses.

As you can see from the activity of that project on SourceForge no one is
really working on this project any longer.  This is because we internally
switched to some proprietary cluster system that fits our needs better and =
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the rest of the world there are alternative solutions that are a perfect
replacement at least as long as it is about C/C++ development.  You might w=
ant
to look into Icecream (http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream).

Robert

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