[Pkg-opencl-devel] pocl

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On 23/04/16 18:21, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Hi Gislain,
> On 2016-04-23 10:05, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
>> I started working on this with the prospect of getting the package
>> team-maintained with d-science (with the agreement of Vincent), but
>> pkg-opencl would be a better fit.
>>
>> I am happy to share what I have done thus far, if you guys are
>> interested. I got to the level of getting the package to build fine
>> with the latest upstream version (0.13), but was stuck with the handling
>> of the symbols. Unless Andreas and the team is already ahead on this.
>
> So far I get 0.11 (with llvm 3.6) and 0.12 (with llvm 3.7) to compile on
> amd64 and i386, but there are testsuite failures. (And symbols files,
> but these are manageable.) 0.13 FTBFS with "error: unknown type name
> 'atomic_flag'", but I didn't look into this, yet.
>
> I'd gladly take whatever improvements you have, so I don't need to
> reinvent stuff.
>
>
> Andreas

This is where I stopped at on my quest to update the packaging to 0.13:

   https://github.com/ghisvail/pocl/tree/debian/master

The branch started from the 0.13 tag, imported Vincent's work before
Andreas and the team took over, and moved up from there. It was not near
ready for submission, but I was able to build and test nicely on amd64
(minus one test case which failure was already reported upstream).

Feel free to take anything from it which you may find useful. Glad you
guys are stepping up to maintain pocl under the OpenCL team. I don't 
know whether I can be of any help moving forward besides moral support.

Best regards to you all,
Ghis