On 26/11/2017 20:07, Alexander Kurtz wrote:
> Package: clang
> Version: 1:3.8-37
>
> In contrast, the clang package does not pull in libomp-dev, which means
> the following fails:
>
> alexander@shepard:~$ cat test.c
> int main(){
> #pragma omp parallel for schedule(dynamic,50)
> for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++);
> }
> alexander@shepard:~$ clang -fopenmp test.c
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lomp
> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
> invocation)
> alexander@shepard:~$
>
> I think that if the clang binary supports the -fopenmp switch, it is
> reasonable to assume that it actually works. Therefore please make the
> clang package depend on the libomp-dev package.
>
For now, I am not planning to add this a mandatory dep. openmp is a
niche and I don't think
we should have a hard dependency for every clang user.
By the way libomp-dev is suggested by clang packages.Cheers, Sylvestre
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