Trouble building CUDA SDK on Ubuntu 7.10

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#1

Hi Everyone,

I tried building the CUDA SDK, but I got the following errors after doing “sudo make”:

make[1]: Entering directory /home/paul/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/common' ar: creating ./../lib/libcutil.a a - obj/release/bank_checker.cpp_o a - obj/release/cmd_arg_reader.cpp_o a - obj/release/cutil.cpp_o a - obj/release/stopwatch.cpp_o a - obj/release/stopwatch_linux.cpp_o a - obj/release/multithreading.cpp_o make[1]: Leaving directory /home/paul/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/common’
make[1]: Entering directory /home/paul/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/common' a - obj/release/paramgl.cpp_o a - obj/release/param.cpp_o make[1]: Leaving directory /home/paul/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/common’
make -C projects/bitonic/
make[1]: Entering directory /home/paul/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/projects/bitonic' make[1]: nvcc: Command not found make[1]: *** [obj/release/bitonic.cu_o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory /home/paul/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/projects/bitonic’
make: *** [projects/bitonic/Makefile.ph_build] Error 2

I’m not sure why I get “make[1]: nvcc: Command not found” since I added the CUDA bin path to $PATH and the CUDA lib path to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. When I type “nvcc” in the terminal, it works…

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.

Cheers,

Paul

#2

sudo is going to run make as root and is probably ignoring your user PATH setting as a security precaution. Since you have the SDK in your home directory, why not just run “make” without the sudo?

#3

I tried but got this:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/paul/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/common’

a - obj/release/bank_checker.cpp_o

a - obj/release/cmd_arg_reader.cpp_o

a - obj/release/cutil.cpp_o

a - obj/release/stopwatch.cpp_o

a - obj/release/stopwatch_linux.cpp_o

a - obj/release/multithreading.cpp_o

ar: could not create temporary file whilst writing archive: No more archived files

make[1]: *** […/lib/libcutil.a] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/common’

make: *** [lib/libcutil.so] Error 2

Any idea what’s going on? I tried changing the permissions of the directories, but that didn’t help either. Thanks for the help.

#4

Ok…so I’m an idiot…this was a directory permission problem. Gave r/w access to the folder and everything worked. ^^

#5

I have this same error. I’ve tried with ‘su’ or without. I’ve also given read/write permissions to all folders and subfolders. What did you do to resolve it?

Thanks, -CS

$ make

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user1/production/cuda/common’

a - obj/release/bank_checker.cpp_o

a - obj/release/cmd_arg_reader.cpp_o

a - obj/release/cutil.cpp_o

a - obj/release/stopwatch.cpp_o

a - obj/release/stopwatch_linux.cpp_o

a - obj/release/multithreading.cpp_o

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user1/production/cuda/common’

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user1/production/cuda/common’

In file included from ./…/common/inc/paramgl.h:13,

             from src/paramgl.cpp:8:

./…/common/inc/GL/glut.h:60:20: error: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory

make[1]: *** [obj/release/paramgl.cpp_o] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user1/production/cuda/common’

make: *** [lib/libparamgl.so] Error 2

#6

install the freeglut-dev package or whatever Ubuntu calls it

#7

GLU != glut

You need to install libglu1-mesa-dev.