[Pkg-opencl-devel] Bug#806965: oclgrind: FTBFS on ppc64el -- conflict with altivec keyword bool

[Fernando Seiti Furusato]

Hello, gentlemen.

Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote on 04/12/2015 22:04:38:

> James,
> 
> you need to keep the original bug submitter Cc:ed  if you want them to
> see your reply.

Not to worry. I should have kept track of the bug report as well.

> On 2015-12-04 15:13, James Price wrote:
> > Thanks for the report. I’ve actually applied a slightly different fix 
for 
> this a little while back (see [1]), but that revision has yet to be 
uploaded.
> > 
> > The fix I applied was essentially the same as has been done for the 
opencl-
> headers package, described in [2]. This just uses __vector instead of 
vector 
> to avoid conflicts with similarly named types.
> > 
> > If you think the '-mno-altivec’ fix is preferable then I can revert my 
patch
> and apply yours instead. 
> 
> I think -mno-altivec is rather a quick workaround and __vector the
> proper fix.

Yes, I agree with Andreas. Mine was just a less invasive workaround, 
because
I preferred not to mess with the code.

> 
> > Otherwise I’ll just request that the latest revision be uploaded.
> 
> I'll take care of that next week.

Great, thanks!

--
Fernando Seiti Furusato
Software Engineer
IBM Brazil - Linux Technology Center