New hipcc causes FTBFS (Re: Simplifying ROCm compiler upgrades)
Hi Cory,
On 2025-10-17 21:52, Cordell Bloor wrote:
> I just pushed rocm-llvm 7.0.1+dfsg-1 to unstable. It includes rocm-
> device-libs-21 we can start building packages using clang++-21.
see #1118435 [1].
This needs a rebuild of all reverse build dependencies, and bugs filed
for all that depend on the HIPCXX=clang-17 pattern.
I understand from this thread [2] that a /usr/bin/hipcxx was rejected,
for sound reasons. However, see the workaround I suggested in #1118435
of shipping this link in some private directory.
If you go this way, then ideally this should be done before bugs against
other packages are filed, because if they need to touch HIPCXX, they
could then already make use of this solution, ie:
HIPCXX=/usr/lib/hipcc/bin/clang -> /usr/bin/clang-xx
Again if you go this way, it would be really nice to backporters if you
included this in a stable update to hipcc, so that they don't have to
patch this out for the backport.
Best,
Christian
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/1118435
[2]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ai/2025/07/msg00105.html
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