Re: Help-make digest, Vol 1 #196 - 3 msgs

[Thomas Chen]

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>    1. Using GNU Make with LSF (Nestor Amaya)
>    2. Make Not Setting Prerequisite List (Kent Wilson)
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> From: Nestor Amaya <address@hidden>
> To: "'Help-Make (E-mail)'" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Using GNU Make with LSF
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:20:53 -0400
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> Hello,
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> I have tried to use the "-j" option of make along with LSF's "bsub" command.
> For those not familiar with LSF, it is a commercial program that helps to
> manage CPU farms - it submits your job to a queue, where it is then assigned
> to the best available resource...
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> The problem is that the bsub command terminates once the job has been
> submitted, and not once the job is complete. Therefore GNU make will think
> that the job has completed prematurely, and the build will fail.
> 
> Platform Computing (the makers of LSF) does provide their modified version
> of GNU Make (for $$$, of course) called "lsmake". This enables
> parallel-builds via LSF.
> 
> I have two questions: For one, I am surprised that Platform Computing can
> charge money for a program that is obviously built on top of the FSF's code:
> GNU Make 3.77 to be exact. For another, I have to believe that there is a
> way to make this work without having to purchase lsmake.
> 
> Thank you very much,
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Have you tried using -K option for bsub cammand -- 'bsub -K'.  With this
option, bsub will not terminate until job is completed.