packaging flang

Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre at debian.org
Tue Sep 19 11:40:27 UTC 2017


Le 19/09/2017 à 12:18, Alastair McKinstry a écrit :
> 
>>> Firstly, have there been any other efforts or plans to do so? I see no
>>> bug in WNPP.
>> No plan for this.
>> I haven't hear about anyone on this.
> So presuming I go ahead with this:
> (1) flang would be in the pkg-llvm-team maintainance.
sure, please go ahead :)

> (2) flang currently needs its own branch of clang (flang_release_40) to
> compile.  I think it can be included in the flang sources short-term,
> but needs to be merged back into the main release long-term. I presume
> this is the plan with upstream, but haven't checked.
yeah, you need flang upstream to commit to that, this is probably too much work on the Debian side.



>>> 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?
>> llvm-openmp has a pretty (very?) stable ABI/API. I am not really worried about the compatibility
>> with more recent versions.
> Agree, and I would be willing to package it too.
This is still 4.0 on purpose because 5.0 just been released!
6.0 is the trunk.



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