[llvm-dev] NVPTX compilation problems - ptxas error

[Lorenz Braun via llvm-dev]

Sorry, after a few days. I was pretty busy so i have just read your answer.

Indeed i have multiple cuda installations. I will check if that fixes 
the problem. Thank you very much!

Am 30.06.2016 um 12:56 schrieb Pranav Madhikar via llvm-dev:
> Hello Lorenz,
>
> I think I may have found what is causing the problem. I had the same 
> problem and was able to solve it, see below.
>
> Do you have more than one version of cuda installed? I think however 
> clang invokes the compilation of the cuda parts of the code may be 
> causing the problem. It may be falling back onto an older version of 
> cuda.
>
> In my case I had cuda-5.5 installed at /usr/local/cuda-5.5 with 
> /usr/local/cuda linked to it. And I have cuda-7.5 installed elsewhere, 
> that is the version in my $PATH and the one I was linking against 
> during compilation. When I ran the compilation with the -v flag, I 
> found that /usr/local/cuda/ptxas was being being invoked (cuda-5.5) 
> instead of the version of ptxas (cuda-7.5) I had in my $PATH. That is 
> the default location that cuda is normally installed to, clang may be 
> defaulting to that. If you have root access, you might try installing 
> cuda-7.5 to /usr/local/cuda. Doing that fixed it for me.
>
> I think this might be a bug in how cuda code is compiled. clang should 
> respect what version you keep in your $PATH.
>
> Best Regards,
> Pranav
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