[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] libiomp, not libgomp as default library linked with -fopenmp

[David Chisnall]

On 6 May 2015, at 14:39, Cownie, James H <james.h.cownie at intel.com> wrote:
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> I am therefore loath to change the library name simply for political/publicity reasons when that will cause unnecessary additional complexity to the users of one of our main target platforms. (Before anyone else says it, yes, of course X86 is the platform I care most about, but the issue isn’t about compiler competition, but about making things easy for the users of LLVM/OpenMP so that things they expect will work do “just work” rather than adding extra complexity and more manuals to explain what has to be done to make them work. Like moving into your partner’s appartment, you’re welll advised not to move all the furniture around immediately J).

For what it’s worth, on FreeBSD we’re likely to install a symlink from libgomp.so to lib[il]omp.so when we import the LLVM runtime (which we’re currently in the process of doing), because we intend to replace the GNU runtime that ships in the base system.

David