Re: RFS: viennacl-1.2.0

[Michael Wild <themiwi@gmail.com>]

On 02/25/2012 12:22 PM, Michael Wild wrote:
> On 02/25/2012 12:03 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> Le samedi 25 février 2012 à 11:59 +0100, Michael Wild a écrit :
>>> On 02/24/2012 08:28 AM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Le vendredi 24 février 2012 à 07:46 +0100, Michael Wild a écrit :
>>>>> Dear Debian Science Developers,
>>>>>
>>>>> I already tried mentioning that I am looking for an upload sponsor on
>>>>> the list (http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2012/02/msg00023.html),
>>>>> but so far haven't had any replies. Also, my original sponsor hasn't
>>>>> replied to my message. This is why I try my luck again with a more
>>>>> formal RFS.
>>>>
>>>> It fails on my system with a cowbuilder chroot:
>> [...]
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Sylvestre
>>>
>>> The problem with running the tests in a chroot is that they need access
>>> to a NVIDIA graphics card and the proprietary drivers able to handle
>>> these tests.
>> You cannot expect build servers to have such capabilities.
>> In the debian package build process, please add a check if the chroot
>> has the driver + nvidia and disable the test if it is not the case.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sylvestre
>>
> 
> If I build in the chroot I use DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck.
> 
> Do you have any idea how I would detect this reliably? I'll also ask
> this the upstream developers, perhaps they have an idea.
> 
> In particular, once other OpenCL implementations get packaged (e.g. the
> one from Intel), it might be possible to run the tests on the CPU
> instead of the GPU, so in that case I would want to run the tests again
> during the build.
> 
> Michael

I think I found a way of detecting compute capability. I will try to
implement it over the weekend and report back with an updated package.

Thanks for the review


Michael