INSTALL.md

Install Task Spooler

First, clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/justanhduc/task-spooler

To set up Task Spooler with GPU support, one needs to set a CUDA_HOME environment variable. Then, simple run the provided script

./install_cmake

to use CMake, or

./install_make

to use Makefile. If Task Spooler has already been installed, and you want to reinstall or upgrade, you can run

./reinstall

CPU version

If you would like to install only the CPU version, use the following commands (recommended)

make cpu
sudo make install

or via CMake

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DTASK_SPOOLER_COMPILE_CUDA=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make
sudo make install

This version is more faithful to the original ts but with many new exciting features, and is still being actively developed.

Local installation

To install without sudo privilege, one can replace the installation command by

make install-local

Note that, the installation will create a bin folder in $HOME if it does not exist. To use ts anywhere, $HOME/bin needs to be added to $PATH if it hasn't been done already. To use man, you may also need to add $HOME/.local/share/man to $MANPATH.

Common problems

• Cannot find CUDA: Did you set a CUDA_HOME flag?
• list.c:22:5: error: implicitly declaring library function 'snprintf' with type 'int (char *, unsigned long, const char *, ...)': Please remove -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 in the Makefile as reported here.
• Error calling recv_msg in c_check_version and/or Wrong server version: This is because another version of ts is still running. If you want to upgrade, please use the reinstall script as instructed above. If you installed ts via apt before, you have to uninstall it and remove the server file in /tmp first before installing this ts. For more info, see here and here.

Uninstall Task Spooler

./uninstall

Or, to remove a local installation:

make uninstall-local

Why would you want to do that anyway?