On 01/07/2013 23:18, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm particularly paranoid about my CUDA setup. I do not understand
> CUDA except enough to declare that if my machine has CUDA 4.2
> installed my life will be easy. This is because I compile software
> that supposedly needs CUDA 4.2.
>
> Can someone please translate the emerge -Dauv snip below into english for me?
It says it's going to downgrade nvidia-cuda-sdk,but it doesn't say why.
For that:
$ eix dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk
* dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk
Available versions: 2.02.0807.1535^b (~)4.2.9-r2 (~)5.0.35-r1
{+cuda debug +doc emulation +examples opencl}
Homepage: http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda
Description: NVIDIA CUDA Software Development Kit
What's in your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS?
My guess is you have a stable system and cuda is not unmasked
>
> My attempted translation: "portage is about to uninstall CUDA 4.2 and
> replace it with CUDA 2.2 so enjoy your new life of misery sucker...
> should've used OpenCL! Hahaha!"
>
> I'll also post the top of dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk/ChangeLog
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris
>
> ===
>
> emerge -Duav snip:
>
> [ebuild UD ] dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk-2.02.0807.1535 [4.2]
> USE="-debug -emulation% (-cuda%*) (-doc%*) (-examples%*) (-opencl%)"
> 40,937 kB
>
> ===
>
> ChangeLog snip:
>
> # ChangeLog for dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk
> # Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
> # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk/ChangeLog,v
> 1.40 2013/06/26 16:13:04 xarthisius Exp $
>
> 26 Jun 2013; Kacper Kowalik <[email protected]>
> -nvidia-cuda-sdk-2.2-r1.ebuild, -nvidia-cuda-sdk-4.2.9-r1.ebuild,
> -nvidia-cuda-sdk-4.2.ebuild, -nvidia-cuda-sdk-5.0.35.ebuild,
> nvidia-cuda-sdk-5.0.35-r1.ebuild:
> Workaround bug #462602, drop old
>
> *nvidia-cuda-sdk-5.0.35-r1 (09 Mar 2013)
>
> 09 Mar 2013; Justin Lecher <[email protected]>
> +nvidia-cuda-sdk-5.0.35-r1.ebuild:
> Install Makefile with examples, #460740
>
> *nvidia-cuda-sdk-4.2.9-r2 (23 Jan 2013)
>
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