In article <4.3.1.2.20000805175233.00ac8100@208.226.86.10>,
Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> This may be an impractical idea, but it seems doable.
> 
> Building a release on the VAX is really slow. A typical build on my fastest 
> machine takes several days to do from scratch. I have 4 VAXStation VLCs 
> (little 6 VUP puppies) that are not doing anything (they test when I'm done 
> building but don't help out in the build.) What I was wondering was if 
> anyone had looked as non-overlapping multiprocessor builds. For example, 
> building through the libraries, and then starting one machine on usr.bin, 
> one on usr.sbin, one on gnu, one on share, and having them all build in 
> parallel.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out some way to get one to stop when it gets to a part 
> of the source tree that is already built (to prevent over taking another 
> processor) any ideas?

pmake might work for you.

christos