[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#840725: Bug#840840: pocl: Does not build on several architectures

[Andreas Tille]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 08:39:08PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2016-10-15 19:57, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > because libpoclu-dev is not available on most architectures.  Since
> > libhmsbeagle has build on all those architectures either the set of
> > Build-Depends has changed (may be together with khronos-opencl-clhpp?)
> > or there was a point in time when pocl has build on more architectures
> > than currently.
> 
> The outdated libhmsbeagle binary packages are from 2.1.2+20150609-1.1,
> predating the use of libpoclu-dev (since 2.1.2+20151220-1).
> So libhmsbeagle never built successfully with libpoclu-dev on more
> architectures than currently (i.e. only on amd64).
> 
> While theoretically pocl could be available on all architectures (that
> support CPUs), that doesn't work right now and I don't know if anyone is
> working on fixing this.
> 
> > So if the fact remains that pocl does not build anywhere else than on
> > intel I need to restrict the set of architectures for libhmsbeagle as
> > well.
> 
> Or just restrict the use of OpenCL to the architectures that have pocl?
> 
> Andreas
> 

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