Bug#811287: Clang: should pull libomp5 AND/OR libomp-dev package for OpenMP support

[Roman Lebedev]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:
Hi.

> Le 17/01/2016 17:50, Roman Lebedev a écrit :
>> Package: clang-3.8
>> Version: 1:3.8~svn257294-1~exp1
>> Severity: wishlist
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>> Dear Maintainer,
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>> For OpenMP support, clang requires libomp5 library.
>> Currently, clang package does not depend on libomp5 package,
>> so one needs to manually install libomp5 package.
> It does not "require" libomp5. It is necessary when building with OpenMP.
> OpenMP usage being a niche, I am not sure we want to add another dependency on clang.
So i was able to test clang + libomp5 some more during darktable development
And i'm not sure making libomp5 *required* is a good idea, maybe in a
few clang releases...

However, i still do believe that clang should mention libomp5.
How about adding  Suggests libomp5  to clang?

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> Sylvestre
Roman.

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