In my parallel computing class this semester, we have to write reports with timing results and some analysis using LaTeX. Since we already cook up Makefiles to compile our MPI C programs, why don't we construct our reports the same way too?
Here is a Makefile I wrote to compile my programs and construct the PDF for my report:
LATEXTMP=*.aux *.log *.toc
EXECS=ex6 ex7
MPICC?=mpicc
LATEXCMP=pdflatex
all: ${EXECS}
ex6: ex6.c
${MPICC} -o ex6 ex6.c
ex7: ex7.c
${MPICC} -o ex7 ex7.c
report: report.tex
${LATEXCMP} report.tex
clean:
rm ${EXECS} ${LATEXTMP}If you are familiar with Make, this set of rules should be fairly straightforward to follow. I also find this useful for getting rid of the temporary files that pdflatex generates, without say, fat-fingering a regex upon rm.
If this is new to you, the GNU Make Manual is a well-written tutorial to start.
Make Make great again! 😛
What kind of automation tools do you use for tasks that aren't typically automated?
