"error: identifier "printf" is undefined" during make

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#18 opened on Mar 25, 2016 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Domain: build-system

Research direction

Start by reviewing System.cmake.src and src/ocustorage/transfer_routines.cu around line 144, then reproduce the failure with cmake and make on the stated Ubuntu and OpenCurrent v1.1.0 setup. Done means the build proceeds past these compilation errors without the undefined printf diagnostics.

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Description

auto-migrated Priority-Medium Type-Defect

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Followed instructions in System.cmake.src to cmake. 
   Had to add the following lines:
    SET(NetCDF_INCLUDE_DIR "/usr/include/")
    SET(NetCDF_LIBRARY "/usr/lib/libnetcdf.so")

2. Ran make. Got to 8% and were then interrupted by: 
<path>/opencurrent-1.1.0/src/ocustorage/transfer_routines.cu(144): error: 
identifier "printf" is undefined
<^^Repeated 10 more times for different lines in the same file^^>
11 errors detected in the compilation of 
"/tmp/tmpxft_00002674_00000000-4_transfer_routines.cpp1.ii".


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
OpenCurrent v1.1.0 release (tar.gz file)
GeForce GTX 580 (compute capability 2.0, 1536 Mb memory).
Ubuntu 11.04 x86_64

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by eskil.au...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2011 at 1:13

Dominant language: Cuda
Stars: 6
Forks: 2
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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