[Mageia-dev] CUDA in Mageia vs compilers

Tue Jul 19 18:25:54 CEST 2011

Hi, all...
+
+As everybody else, I want to suggest some things for Mageia.
+One is just a simple update request, that could have gone through bugzilla,
+but it is closely related to the other...
+
+My suggestions:
+
+- update CUDA to 4.0 (easy)
+- (not so easy) As today, CUDA does not work with gcc-4.5 and upwards.
+  In madriva there is a gcc42 package, but that has not been imported to
+  Mageia, and anyways looks a bit old.
+  So in short CUDA is unusable in mageia nowadays.
+  What I propose is to have a gcc4 package, that contains the latest
+  gcc-4.x.y (currently 4.4.6).
+  Then we could setup things in CUDA to use that gcc instead of standard (I
+  did it for myself but can try at system level).
+  At least c,c++ and fortran would be usefull in that package.
+
+How hard would this be ? How complicated is to have two full compilers+libraries
+in a system ? Current gcc is already installed as gcc-4.5.2 and uses
+alternatives, but not so fortran and others...
+Do you see any other solution ?
+
+Thanks for your attention...
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>     \                 Winter is coming...
+