Bug#891642: nvidia-cuda-dev: header wants gone gcc5 compiler

Bzzzz lazyvirus at gmx.com
Tue Feb 27 18:13:11 UTC 2018


On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:47:37 +0100
Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:

> On 2018-02-27 17:24, Jiff wrote:
> > Package: nvidia-cuda-dev
> > Version: 8.0.44-4
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Mai n'tainer,
> > 
> > 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > (sorry but I uninstalled all CUDA packages, so it may not be the
> > good one I picked for reporting.)
> > 
> >    * What led up to the situation?
> > 
> > An attempt to compile the stable git OpenCV library (3.4.0),
> > including CUDA to speed it up.
> > 
> >    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> >      ineffective)?
> > 
> > cmake configuration threw an error explaining that one of nvidia
> > CUDA header files wants gcc version ≤ 5,
> > however, gcc5 is no more part of Stretch.
> > 
> >    * What was the outcome of this action?
> > 
> > Compilation of OpenCV stable git v.3.4.0 is impossible if CUDA is
> > enabled.
> > 
> >    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> > 
> > CUDA dev files to work accordingly to the available gcc version
> > availablefrom Stretch (gcc6 at this time.)  
> 
> So essentially, you are asking for a backport of CUDA 9 to stretch :-)
> I'll probably do this after 9.1 landed in testing.
> 
> CUDA 8 in stretch can be used with clang-3.8.

Ok Andreas, so I'll wait until you backport CUDA 9 (but not long,
otherwise you'll be deprived of signed integers;-p)

thanks for your swift answer.

Regards,
JYB



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