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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/10/2015 8:45 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> OpenMP is optional, it boosts the ratsnest calculation in GAL canvases.
> It was in the section specific to both gcc and clang, what are other
> compilers that we support?

Technically we don't but hiding FindOpenMP in the gcc and clang compiler
config probably isn't the best choice.  OpenMP is likely to be supported
on other compilers.

I removed the offending line that inadvertently made OpenMP a
requirement so everything should be fine.

> 
> Anyway, if it works for other compilers, I do not see a reason that
> prevents enabling it.
> 
> Regards,
> Orson
> 
> On 12/10/2015 02:30 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> He didn't add it, he just moved it out of the GCC specific
>> configuration.  I'm not sure why openmp would only be required when
>> using gcc and not other compilers (which technically are not supported).
>>  Do we even need openmp?  Where is used in KiCad?  If we do need it, is
>> it only required when building kicad with gcc?
>>
>> On 12/10/2015 8:26 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>> It was added in the patch by the other Simon.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/commit/e87258510567cb95800178dec30b058c885c326c#diff-af3b638bc2a3e6c650974192a53c7291
>>>
>>> 2015-12-10 14:22 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> I'm not sure why openmp would be a dependency that is compiler
>>>> dependent.  I didn't add the openmp dependency so I cannot comment on
>>>> why this would be specific to gcc.  Anyone else know why openmp was gcc
>>>> specific?
>>>>
>>>> On 12/9/2015 7:15 PM, Simon Wells wrote:
>>>>> In BZR-6363 a patch was made so that OpenMP worked on non-gcc compilers
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> check_find_package_result( OPENMP_FOUND "OpenMP" )
>>>>>
>>>>> Was also added, This appears to make OpenMP a dependency for building kicad?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this meant to be the case or was this line added in error
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>>
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