CUDA error: gcc 4.9 and up are not supported

Problem

I have seen this error while compiling a CUDA program. I have also seen this error on running a PyCUDA program:

#error -- unsupported GNU version! gcc 4.9 and up are not supported!

Solution

I was using GCC 4.9.2 on this system, but I did not know why CUDA had a problem with these newer versions. Turns out that it does not have any problem, this warning just needs to be choked in the relevant header file.

For CUDA, this header file was /usr/local/cuda/include/host_config.h. For PyCUDA, this header file was /usr/include/host_config.h.

This diff should fix this error:

--- host_config.h.bkp   2015-02-24 09:53:55.232620612 +0800
+++ host_config.h   2015-02-24 10:24:01.428654521 +0800
@@ -77,11 +77,11 @@

 #if defined(__GNUC__)

-#if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 8)
+#if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 9)

 #error -- unsupported GNU version! gcc 4.9 and up are not supported!

-#endif /* __GNUC__> 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 8) */
+#endif /* __GNUC__> 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 9) */

 #endif /* __GNUC__ */

Tried with: PyCUDA 2014.1, CUDA 6.5, GCC 4.9.2 and Ubuntu 14.04