[arch-dev-public] Opencl/Cuda headers

Ionuț Bîru ibiru at archlinux.org
Sat Oct 30 07:02:08 EDT 2010


On 10/30/2010 07:45 AM, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote:
>
> My suggestion would be to package only OpenCL headers (Khronos version) and
> eventually discuss addition of Cuda if it becomes easier to maintain in a
> rolling release distribution. The new "khronos-opencl-headers" package could
> be added as optional dependencies for nvidia-utils which will also include a
> "provides=('libCL')"[6]. I tested this solution on several codes and it works
> well. It also seems that Debian is going to do something very similar[7].
>
> So what do other people think about this problem ?
>
> Stéphane
>


imo khronos-opencl-headers is not a good name for our package. can we 
have opencl-headers  or nvidia-opencl-headers if the headers for the 
opensource drivers are not compatible with them?


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Ionuț


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