On Sun, 2016-07-31 at 11:32 -0700, stan wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:06:18 -0700 > stan <stanl-fedorauser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 17:24:16 +0000 (UTC) > > "Amadeus W.M." <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:36:10 +0000, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > IIRC the cuda installer lets you override the check for the gcc > > > > version (try running the installer ".run" file with the " > > > > --help" > > > > option). > > > > > > > > > > > > Note that overrides the gcc check during installation--there's > > > > no > > > > guarantee that compilations will work. Cuda uses certain gcc > > > > flags > > > > that may be deprecated or non-existent in newer gcc > > > > implementations. > > > > > > > > > > > > Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer AllDigital, Inc. > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > > NVIDIA provides a cuda rpm repository and I installed everything > > > from there with dnf, so it installed with whatever defaults it > > > came > > > with. And, as you said, even if it doesn't check for the > > > compiler, > > > it won't necessarily compile. I'm really looking for a clean way > > > of > > > installing gcc-4.9. > > Some further thoughts. The 4.9 compiler is from F21. So you could > build a virtual machine of F21 to use for this, or do a minimal > install > just for this purpose. I can't remember the link, but Fedora keeps a > snapshot of the last version of each version, so there is an F21 > repository with all the software in it, current at the end of the > version. Then just install from the cuda repository, and off you go. > > This would be a lot easier than trying to bolt gcc 4.9 onto the > latest > Fedora. Another alternative would be to just get the source from https://www.gn u.org/software/gcc/ and build a local copy in /usr/local or your home directory. That would avoid all the conflicts that RPMs generate with the system GCC. I did that once some time back and it's not that hard. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
