Fedora 18(64bit) and CUDA 5.0

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Setup and Installation
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In case you want to get CUDA 5.0 running on F18, I summarized the necessary steps here

[url]http://hobiger.org/blog/2013/01/28/fedora-18-and-cuda/[/url]

Before you get started, make sure that you don’t have a F18 installation with the “nouveau” driver, but have selected “Install with basic video driver” on the initial installation screen !!!

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After following the steps above you may need to do the following to build the examples

  1. The Makefiles don’t pay attention to LD_LIBRARY_PATH or the ldconfig. Assuming you installed to /usr/local, they use the path /usr/local/cuda/lib64 but disregard the /usr/lib64/nvidia/ directory in which the libcuda*so is located.

To fix ad a symlink in the /usr/local/cuda/lib64 directory:

  $  cd /usr/local/cuda/lib64
  $  ln -s /usr/lib64/nvidia/libcuda.so libcuda.so

  1. Run make from the /usr/local/cuda/samples directory as follows:

    $ cd /usr/local/cuda/samples
    $ make -k EXTRA_NVCCFLAGS=“–pre-include /usr/local/include/undef_atomics_int128.h”

where /usr/local/include/undef_atomics_int128.h is the header file constructed in the previous post.

The “-k” tells make to continue even if a particular example fails to build, e.g. for examples requiring something you don’t have installed such as mpi.

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Thanks for adding the comment. I am not sure why, but (1) was not necessary in my case. However, (2) is really useful as it avoids to manipulate all the Makefiles in the example directories