[Pkg-opencl-devel] Bug#1004883: intel-graphics-compiler: switch to llvm-toolchain-13

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Andreas,

On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 13:45:25 +0100 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> On 03/02/2022 18.46, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > In order to build intel-graphics-compiler against llvm-11 we would need 
> > to reintroduce spirv-llvm-translator and intel-opencl-clang built 
> > against llvm-11. These are tightly coupled to the llvm version being 
> > used and will change the soname accordingly. I would therefore 
> > reintroduce them as new source packages with '-11' appended.
> > Would adding two more source packages depending on llvm-11 be OK?
> > That's the only solution I see for making intel-compute-runtime 
> > buildable again on a short time frame.
> 
> I've now managed to do the same with llvm-12, so I'd rather introduce 
> src:spirv-llvm-translator-12 and src:opencl-clang-12 and leave llvm-11 
> alone ;-)

As a Release Team member, I rather have llvm-11 based than llvm-12 base. 
intel-graphics-compiler is the only package why llvm-12 is still in testing.

> PS: Looking ahead into the future: If llvm continues to do two major 
> releases per year (Mar/Apr, Sept/Oct), which llvm versions are likely 
> available at the time we freeze bookworm (guessing early 2023, so 
> llvm-15 should be out) and which llvm versions (and which default) would 
> you like to release with bookworm?

We have llvm-14 now indeed. For the plan, we need Sylvestre.

Paul
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