Allow custom nvcc location when running make + ignore gdb history

To specify a custom path to nvcc when building:
`make NVCC=/my/path/to/nvcc`

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e589da8..b0d597a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+**/.gdb_history
 preemption_logger
 constant_cycles_kernel
 copy_experiments/copy_contender
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9f6da4d..688d73d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 .PHONY: all copy_experiments clean
+NVCC ?= nvcc
 
 all: constant_cycles_kernel preemption_logger copy_experiments
 
 constant_cycles_kernel: constant_cycles_kernel.cu testbench.h
-        nvcc constant_cycles_kernel.cu -o constant_cycles_kernel
+        $(NVCC) constant_cycles_kernel.cu -o constant_cycles_kernel
 
 preemption_logger: task_host_utilities.cu preemption_logger.cu testbench.h
-        nvcc preemption_logger.cu -o preemption_logger -g
+        $(NVCC) preemption_logger.cu -o preemption_logger -g
 
 copy_experiments:
         $(MAKE) -C $@
diff --git a/copy_experiments/Makefile b/copy_experiments/Makefile
index b2d55c2..ede22dc 100644
--- a/copy_experiments/Makefile
+++ b/copy_experiments/Makefile
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 .PHONY: all clean
+NVCC ?= nvcc
 
 all: copy_contender mon_cross_ctx_copies
 
 copy_contender: copy_contender.cu copy_testbench.h ../testbench.h
-        /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc copy_contender.cu -o $@ -lcuda -g
+        $(NVCC) copy_contender.cu -o $@ -lcuda -g
 
 mon_cross_ctx_copies: mon_cross_ctx_copies.cu copy_testbench.h ../testbench.h
-        /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc mon_cross_ctx_copies.cu -o $@ -lcuda -lpthread -g
+        $(NVCC) mon_cross_ctx_copies.cu -o $@ -lcuda -lpthread -g
 
 clean:
         rm -f copy_contender mon_cross_ctx_copies