On Sun, 2020-04-05 at 22:13 +0100, Marek Szuba wrote: > On 2020-04-02 15:31, Marek Szuba wrote: > > > 3. Test if downstream applications are happy with the new unified OpenCL > > headers required by the Khronos Group ICD loader and if they are, add > > dev-libs/opencl-icd-loader to virtual/opencl as an alternative to ocl-icd; > > Quick update on this: today I have attempted to rebuild and test various > OpenCL-dependent packages using the unified headers and > dev-libs/opencl-icd-loader. The good news is, they have all been > perfectly happy with them. The bad news is, I actually had to manually > symlink all contents > /usr/lib/OpenCL/vendors/opencl-icd-loader/include/CL/ into > /usr/include/CL/ for this to work because eselect-opencl contains a > hard-coded list of expected vendor header files. > > In other words, it will be necessary to either teach eselect-opencl how > to handle the unified headers or make it possible for it to let the > contents of /usr/include/CL be. Personally I am leaning towards the > latter - it doesn't even handle legacy headers that well (it installs > several versions into /usr/lib/OpenCL/global but in the end offers no > way of switching between them), and in any case even its description > suggests its job is to switch between implementations rather than handle > global headers.
While at it, is there any chance to rewrite eselect-opencl so that it stops writing into /usr and uses environment approach like eselect- opengl does? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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