Can not find lcuda when compiling deviceQueryDrv with default MakeFile

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Hi, I’m new with CUDA and installing it in Linux, I have installed the CUDA toolkit and the CUDA SDK, but when I run the makefile, it can not build the deviceQueryDrv because it can not find lcuda. I know that libcuda exists, I think there is a problem with the default makefile of the SDK, Please Help me! I don’t know what to do.
This is what appears in the console

make[1]: Entering directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/common' make[1]: Leaving directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/common’
make[1]: Entering directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/common' make[1]: Leaving directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/common’
make[1]: Entering directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/common' make[1]: Leaving directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/common’
make -C src/3DFD/
make[1]: Entering directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/3DFD' make[1]: Leaving directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/3DFD’
make -C src/dxtc/
make[1]: Entering directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/dxtc' make[1]: Leaving directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/dxtc’
make -C src/scan/
make[1]: Entering directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/scan' make[1]: Leaving directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/scan’
make -C src/asyncAPI/
make[1]: Entering directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/asyncAPI' make[1]: Leaving directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/asyncAPI’
make -C src/simpleTexture/
make[1]: Entering directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/simpleTexture' make[1]: Leaving directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/simpleTexture’
make -C src/deviceQueryDrv/
make[1]: Entering directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/deviceQueryDrv' /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lcuda collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [../../bin/linux/release/deviceQueryDrv] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /root/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/deviceQueryDrv’
make: *** [src/deviceQueryDrv/Makefile.ph_build] Error 2

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I’m with 3.0-beta SDK, so I cannot check it directly, but - if I remember it correctly, the CUDA path was in some way hard-coded in SDK makefile(s) in older SDK versions. So if you know at least basics of make syntax, you may wish to check makefiles, and fix it yourself.

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libcuda should be installed in a standard system path, like /usr/lib by default, and it comes in the driver package. There should be no compiler arguments necessary for it to be found by default. So if a build that needs libcuda is failing, it probably means that either you haven’t got a driver which supports CUDA installed, or you are using a driver package which hides libcuda in a non-standard place, or you have a seriously broken build system, Take you pick.