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bug#50418: [PATCH core-updates-frozen 0/2] gnu: ocl-icd: Fix build.


From: Maxim Cournoyer
Subject: bug#50418: [PATCH core-updates-frozen 0/2] gnu: ocl-icd: Fix build.
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:37:44 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net> writes:

> Hi Sarah,
>
>> Is the Khronos Group one better, such that there's no reason to keeping
>> ocl-icd?  (The README for ocl-icd states "[t]his package aims at
>> creating an Open Source alternative to vendor specific OpenCL ICD
>> loaders."  Is the Khronos Group one similarly not vendor-specific?)
> I’m not really sure which one is “better”, but the Khronos-loader
> is vendor-independent like ocl-icd, so there’s no real reason to
> keep two imho.
>
>> If so, would you consider replacing ocl-icd with it in
>> core-updates-frozen, since it and its dependents are currently broken?
> Ludovic actually merged master into core-updates-frozen yesterday, so
> this issue should be resolved. Unfortunately the CI is going to take
> some time to catch up, so we don’t know yet whether that was successful.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars

Since we already have opencl-icd-loader deprecating ocl-icd in the
frozen branch (see commit 4d1157fca7), let's drop this change for now.

Thank you,

Closing.

Maxim





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