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

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On 21/12/16 00:57, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2016-12-21 00:44, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I tried that and it doesn't apply cleanly on 0.13, didn't investigate
> further since there were too many conflicts.

I guess the Fedora folks must have tried this too and decide on 
packaging a snapshot release as a result.

> Tried building the latest git snapshot instead, but that requires
> switching to cmake as build system, which does not work out of the box
> and I don't have time right now to dig into this.

I have got experience with the packaging cmake-based projects. I am 
happy to investigate.

> Could someone provide patches for switching 0.13 to use cmake? So we
> could verify that we build the same packages with cmake as we do with
> autotools currently, before we have to investigate new problems caused
> by the new upstream.

I can set some time aside today. I'll report when I have something ready 
for testing.

Thanks again Andreas for your efforts.

Ghis