On 2019/06/05 16:42, j@bitminer.ca wrote:
> Users will adopt flavors such as -withopenmp, or -noopenmp, as they become
> available.
Flavours are often a bad idea, testing becomes more complicated,
especially for ports which are part of chains of dependencies. I think
they should probably be avoided for this.
> Some issues and questions:
>
> - this will work for amd64, but will it work for arm64, sparc? Others?
> - should the flavors be -withopenmp or -noopenmp?
> - how to successfully detect 90% or more of ports with hidden OpenMP support?
> I will do this and am looking for advice on how best to approach it.
> Any pre-existing info would be very welcome.
It would be helpful to see examples of what sort of improvement can be
expected on OpenBSD before deciding if it's worth the trouble to integrate
into ports (which is an ongoing thing, not just one-off work).
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