QMAKE(1)

NAME
qmake - distributed parallel make, scheduling by Grid Engine.

SYNTAX
qmake [options] -- [gmake options]

DESCRIPTION
Qmake is a parallel, distributed utility. Scheduling of the parallel make tasks is done by Grid Engine. It is based on GNU make, version 3.82 ("gmake). Both Grid Engine and GNU make command line options can be specified. They are separated by "--".

All Grid Engine options valid with or can be specified with qmake. See for a description of all Grid Engine command line options. The GNU Make manual (via info) or the manual page describes the gmake command line syntax.

The syntax of qmake makefiles corresponds to gmake and is described in the "GNU Make Manual".

A typical qmake call will use the Grid Engine command line options -cwd to have a scheduled make started in the current working directory on the execution host, -v PATH if the Grid Engine environment is not set up in the user's .cshrc Or .profile shell resource file, and also request slots in a parallel environment (see

If no resource request (Grid Engine command line option -l) is specified, qmake will use the environment variable SGE_ARCH to request the same architecture as the submit host for task execution. If SGE_ARCH is set, the architecture specified in SGE_ARCH will be requested by inserting the option -l arch=$SGE_ARCH into the command line options. If SGE_ARCH is not set, the make tasks can be executed on any available architecture. As this is critical for typical make (compile) jobs, a warning will be output.

qmake has two different modes for allocating Grid Engine resources for the parallel execution of tasks:

1.  Allocation of resources using a parallel environment. If the -pe option is used on the qmake command line, a parallel job is scheduled by Grid Engine. The make rules are executed as tasks within this parallel job.

2.  Dynamic allocation of resources. If no parallel environment is requested when submitting a qmake job, each make rule will generate an individual Grid Engine qrsh job. All resource requests given to qmake will be inherited by the jobs processing the make rules.

In dynamic allocation mode, additional resource requests for individual rules can be specified by preceding the rule by the definition of an environment variable SGE_RREQ. The rule then takes the form
    SGE_RREQ="request" rule
e.g.
    SGE_RREQ="-l lic=1" cc -c ...
If such makefile rules are executed in a make utility other than qmake, the environment variable SGE_RREQ will be set in the environment established for the rule's execution - presumably without any effect.

EXAMPLES

    qmake -cwd -v PATH -pe compiling 1-10 --

will request between 1 and 10 slots in parallel environment "compiling". If the SGE_ARCH environment variable is set to the machine architecture, a resource request will be inserted into the qmake command line to start the qmake job on the same architecture as the submit host. The make tasks will inherit the complete environment of the calling shell, and as as many parallel tasks will execute as slots have been granted by Grid Engine.

    qmake -l arch=sol-sparc -cwd -v PATH -- -j 4

will submit each make rule as an individual qrsh job. A maximum of 4 tasks will be processed in parallel. The qmake job will be started on a machine of architecture sol-sparc. This resource request will also be inherited by the make tasks, i.e. all jobs created for the execution of make tasks will request the architecture sol-sparc.

If the following Makefile is submitted with the above command line, additional resource requests will be made for individual rules: For the compile and link rules, compiler licenses (comp) and linker licenses (link) will be requested, in addition to the resource request made for the whole job (-l arch=sol-sparc) on the command line.

    all: test

    clean:
    	rm -f test main.o functions.o

    test: main.o functions.o
    	SGE_RREQ="-l link=1" ld -o test main.o functions.o

    main.o: main.c
    	SGE_RREQ="-l comp=1" cc -c -DALIASPATH=

    functions.o: functions.c
    	SGE_RREQ="-l comp=1" cc -c -DALIASPATH=

The command line
    qmake -cwd -v PATH -l arch=sol-sparc64 -pe make 3 --

will request 3 parallel make tasks to be executed on hosts of architecture "sol-sparc64". The submit may be done on a host of any architecture.

The shell script

    #!/bin/sh
    qmake -inherit --

can be submitted by

    qsub -cwd -v PATH -pe make 1-10 [further sge options] <script>

Qmake will inherit the resources granted for the job submitted above under parallel environment "make".

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

SGE_ROOT
    Specifies the location of the Grid Engine standard configuration files.

SGE_CELL
    If set, specifies the default Grid Engine cell. To address a Grid Engine cell qmake uses (in the order of precedence):

        The name of the cell specified in the environment variable SGE_CELL, if it is set.

        The name of the default cell, i.e. default.

SGE_DEBUG_LEVEL
    If set, specifies that debug information should be written to stderr. In addition the level of detail in which debug information is generated is defined.

SGE_ARCH
    The architecture of the submit host. If this variable is set in the submission environment, qmake will request the given architecture for job execution (see DESCRIPTION above).

KNOWN PROBLEMS

  Slow NFS server
Very low file server performance may lead to problems on dependent files.

Example: Host a compiles a.c to a.o, host b compiles b.c to b.o, host c shall link program c from a.o and b.o. In case of very bad NFS performance, host c might not yet see files a.o and b.o.

  Multiple commands in one rule
If multiple commands are executed in one rule, the makefile has to ensure that they are handled as one command line.

Example:

    libx.a:
        cc -c x.c
        ar ru libx.a x.o

Building libx.a will fail if the commands are executed in parallel (and possibly on different hosts). Write the following instead:

    libx.a:
        cc -c x.c ; ar ru libx.a x.o

or

    libx.a:
        cc -c x.c ; \
        ar ru libx.a x.o

SEE ALSO
as well as (GNU make manpage) and TheGNUMakeManual via

COPYRIGHT
Qmake Is based on GNU Make (gmake), which is copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc., Boston, MA, and is protected by the GNU General Public License.
See and the information provided in <sge_root>/doc/LICENCES for a statement of further rights and permissions.