Bug#822434: Bad news to CUDA applications (was: Re: GCC 6 & binutils for the Debian stretch release)

[lumin]

Releated bug on ArchLinux:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49272?project=5&opened=12602

There are some hacks but none of them seems to be "an actual solution
to packaging".

On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 06:07 +0000, lumin wrote:
> Hi all,
> (please keep me in CC list)
> 
> I'm pointing out a BIG problem introduced by stretch's GCC-6-only plan.
> 
> In brief CUDA 8.0~RC fails to work with GCC-6, this conclusion
> comes from my local Caffe build log as attached. 
> That is to say, after GCC-6 transition *ALL* packages depending
> on cuda will get removed from stretch due to FTBFS.
> 
> I don't expect Nvidia to release CUDA 8.5 before the stretch
> freeze date (Q1 2017), i.e. even a freeze-exception against
> cuda might not save this situation. So all maintainers maintaining
> CUDA application packages have to face this harsh condition.
> Do you have any solution to this problem?
> 
> Besides, I cc'ed 2 nvidia guys with a hope that they can provide
> some helpful information.