[Pkg-opencl-devel] Moving to LLVM 3.9 (was: pocl)

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 00:44 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2016-12-20 16:04, Andreas Boll wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we are currently in the same situation again. Mesa has moved to LLVM 3.9
> > and thus beignet will automatically switch with the next upload/binNMU
> > to LLVM 3.9 too [1].
> 
> Requested a binNMU for beignet.
> 
> > Unfortunately pocl 0.13 isn't compatible with LLVM
> > 3.9. There's a git commit with fixes for 3.9 but I don't know if it's
> > enough [2]. Fedora Rawhide has moved to a git snapshot of pocl 0.14 to
> > get compatibility with LLVM 3.9 [3].
> 
> I'll try the patch, that's all I can probably manage before the holidays.

Thanks Andreas,

> On 2016-12-20 16:44, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> > The positive thing here is that we know a git snapshot should work
> > since Fedora successfully tried it.
> > 
> > Perhaps, we could also ask upstream how comfortable they are in making
> > a release soon? Or at least point us to a specific commit they feel
> > happy about packaging?
> 
> If someone could talk to upstream, that would be great.

I'll handle it. Looks like the current milestone for 0.14 [1] does not have
much items left.

[1] https://github.com/pocl/pocl/milestone/7

Ghis