packaging flang

[Alastair McKinstry]

Hi,

I'm investigating packaging the new fortran compiler flang for Debian.

flang is based on llvm, similar to clang:

https://github.com/flang-compiler/flang

Firstly, have there been any other efforts or plans to do so? I see no
bug in WNPP.

Secondly, flang builds following the instructions on the page, against
the tagged release_40 versions of llvm. It requires llvm-openmp, and
hasn't been moved to 5.0 (much less 6.0); if I was to package flang,
would I need to package llvm-openmp and will 4.0 be present in Buster?

Finally, flang has its own  'mod' format (precompiled header files) that
will conflict with gfortran, so I am working on a proposal to use
dh-fortran-mod and a fortran helper to debhelper to move .mod files to 
non-conflicting directories to avoid this.

Best regards

Alastair


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