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#!/usr/bin/perl -s

use Makefile::Parallel;

our ($clock, $pbs, $dump, $clean, $debug, $local, $continue, $mail);

die "You cannot use both pbs and local sub-systems...\n" if ($pbs && $local);
die "Mail can be used only with pbs...\n" if $mail && !$pbs;

my $makefile = shift or die usage();

process_makefile($makefile,
    {
        scheduler => $pbs ? 'PBS' : 'LOCAL',
        local     => $local,
        dump      => $dump,
        clock     => $clock,
        clean     => $clean,
        debug     => $debug,
        continue  => $continue,
        $mail ? (mail => $mail) : (),
    }
);

sub usage() {
    print <<EOF;
pmake Usage:
    pmake <options> file.pmake

    For more info about the options please read the perldoc.
EOF
}

=head1 NAME

pmake - Makefile-Paralell  Scheduler

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 pmake [options] file.pmake

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The pmake scheduler program reads a textual specification
of a PMakefile and schedules it to a sub-system.

The basic syntax of this program is:

    pmake <options> file.pmake

Without options, the pmake program reads the makefile specification and runs
it on the local CPU, using one process the time. As you execute the program
it will print some useful logging text and allows the user to see how is the
process going.

At the end of the pipeline, a report is printed, stating for each job, the start
and end date-time, and the elapsed time on a human readable string.
Is also generates a makefile's dependecy graph representation for easly see
how the jobs relate to each other and how much time did they take to run.

=head1 Options

=head2 debug

=over 4

This flag makes the log output more verbose allowing to debug certain parts
of the code. A "log" directory is created with tons of debug information.
It's used mainly on the development environment. But please compress this
directory and sent it to me when you have a reporto of something not working.
It will help a lot.

=back

=head2 dump

=over 4

This options makes the pmake program parse the makefile to a internal
representation, and return a serialiazed version of the
structure, without actually doing any run. Used in the developement
purposes.

=back

=head2 continue

=over 4

This options makes the pmake program try to continue a previous interrupted
run. The pmake scheduler saves a journal with usefull information, so
it can recovery in a the case of a disaster. Imagine this situation: you
have a specification that takes 1 week to conclude on a high performance
cluster. In the last process you discover you have an error, so the whole
process fails, and you have to resubmit the jobs form the beginning. You
certainly will like the -continue option for this.

=back

=head2 clean

=over 4

Running jobs with pmake can produce a number of temporary files that
may be floating in your directory at the end of the execution.
If you think that it's too dangerous to try yourself the removal
of the files, call pmake with this option and a makefile, and it
will (probably) do the job.

=back

pmake accepts options specific to the local sub-system:

=head2 local[=n]

=over 4

This flag forces the pmake to use the Local Scheduler (it already uses
it by default). However, it is possible to pass a optional integer
n, to specify how many parallel jobs do you want to run on your
desktop computer. We recommend to use n between 1 and maximum
logical CPUs on the target machine.

=back

pmake accepts options specific to the PBS sub-system:

=head2 pbs

=over 4

This flag enables the use of the PBS scheduler. The result of running
this option on a system without PBS is undefined. The program
behaves exactly the same, producint the same output, but in the
background, PBS scripts are created and submitted to the cluster queue.

=back

You can find some simple examples of the specification on the /examples
directory of the distribution. Sorry the lack of documentation on the
syntax for now.

=cut