[Pkg-opencl-devel] Bug#823528: Bug#823528: llvmopencl.so.5 should be packaged in it's own binary package

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: tag -1 wontfix

On 2016-05-09 12:11, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Le 09/05/2016 11:39, Andreas Beckmann a écrit :
>> This seems to include some public symbols :-(
> 
> semi-public (ie public by the way the library is built but not by its
> intended use case)

OK, ignoring these changes for now. Nothing gets renamed and
llvmopencl.so.X doesn't get its own package.

> None of them are used by libOpenCL.so
> None of them are defined in the OpenCL norm.
> 
> My question (I do not have the answer) is : is there any useful case
> in Debian to link directly with this library ?
> And, if the previous answer is yes, is there any symbols other that
> the one in libOpenCL (ie most "cl..." function) that are indended to be
> used by external application/libraries

Probably no+no

> Wont't be better to add a linker map (the one from ocl-icd for example,
> but removing symbols version if not used in pocl) so that only intended
> public symbols are kept into the library (the other will become
> explicitly private) ?

That would be an option, but can be investigated later.

And now let me upload 0.13 to experimental :-)


Andreas