@Graham libviennacl-dev has a build-depends on libopencl1 (virtual) and does not specify a suggested implementation (although this is against policy, so probably can be filed as a bug against that package) .
opencl loaders *should* be interchangeable if they follow the traditional virtual package definition, but due to the vendor issue in implementations this is not always the case. Any package that has a build-depends on libopencl1 without specifying ocl-icd-opencl1 as the recommended dependency will depend on whatever buildd decides to pull to satisfy that dependency. I see this becoming an issue in the future. This has been discussed in debian (http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ocl- icd.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian;hb=HEAD) See for instance line #310 Even that debian readme is out of date, I have had trouble exchanging Intel-opencl and ocl-opencl between compile time and runtime. I see this becoming a bigger issue in the future, the consortium members are not doing a good job at maintaining symbol compatibility and are more concerned with vendor specific extensions to OpenCL, I feel that Ubuntu should nip it in the bud as early as possible and require all build- depends and depends to point to ocl-icd and have the virtual-package libopencl1 point only to the open implementation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328542 Title: [xorg-edgers] OCL-ICD provides a free generic OpenCL implementation, should ubuntu policy be to build applications against this loader vs closed vendor implementations To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-driver/+bug/1328542/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
