Re: gcc 4.9

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:34:51 -0700, stan wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 04:30:03 +0000 (UTC)
> "Amadeus W.M."  wrote:
> [snip]
> > Unfortunately nothing worked.
> >
> > In the cuda distribution there is a host_config.h file which contains
> > the following lines:
> >
> > #if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 9)
> >
> > #error -- unsupported GNU version! gcc versions later than 4.9 are not
> > supported!
> >
> > #endif /* __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 9) */
> >
> > This checks the version of the compiler and triggers an error with
> > gcc-6.1 even if I pass --std=gnu89 which was the default C standard in
> > gcc-4.9.
>
> You don't have write access to that file?  If you do, you could just
> comment out that check.

I do have write access to that file, but I imagine that compiler check is 
there for a reason, so I would rather use the right compiler than not 
check for it. Chances are the cuda code won't compile (correctly) if I 
skip the check. Still, maybe worth a shot.