Re: hipfft requires rocfft sources

[Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org>]

Hi Cory,

On 2023-12-23 22:26, Cordell Bloor wrote:
> It seems that in ROCm 6.0, the hipFFT library began depending on the
> rocFFT sources at build-time [1]. This was discussed previously when
> rocFFT sources were only required for the hipFFT tests [2].
> 
> Fedora packagers have raised this as an issue, so upstream has been
> discussing a few solutions. There is a proposed solution of uploading
> custom tarballs for hipFFT releases with the full rocFFT sources
> included in the tarball (just like if `git clone --recursive` were used
> for acquiring the sources to create the tarball). An alternative
> proposal is to use git subrepo (rather than git submodule), and thereby
> directly include the specific files that are used in both libraries
> directly in both repositories. A third proposal might be to have rocfft
> create another dev package that contains the components hipfft requires.
> 
> If you have thoughts on how this impacts Debian packaging or if you have
> any preferences between these solutions, please speak up.

thanks for the pointer, we should definitely contribute with input.

I'll have to take a look at the sources, and the discussion, first.

Best,
Christian