From 377a52427c70debc3a769fbbc5701589cfe16a98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolas <127742645+nneubacher@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 03:17:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Refactor Error Handling for CUDA

Add guidance for setting CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH to match GPU compute capability for CUDA versions < 11.7. Include link to NVIDIA's CUDA GPUs documentation for compute capability reference.
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 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 11b31c5c8..53c8caf2e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ CUDA_VERSION := $(shell $(NVCC) --version | grep -oP 'release (\K[0-9]+\.[0-9])'
 ifeq ($(shell awk -v "v=$(CUDA_VERSION)" 'BEGIN { print (v < 11.7) }'),1)
 ifndef CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH
 ifndef CUDA_POWER_ARCH
-$(error I ERROR: For CUDA versions < 11.7 a target CUDA architecture must be explicitly provided via CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH)
+$(error I ERROR: To address this error for CUDA versions earlier than 11.7, you must specify your GPU's compute capability. Execute export CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH=compute_XX, replacing XX with your GPU's compute capability number. For assistance in finding your GPU's compute capability, visit https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus.)
 endif # CUDA_POWER_ARCH
 endif # CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH
 endif # eq ($(shell echo "$(CUDA_VERSION) < 11.7" | bc),1)