Caffe: Caffe build fails on Amazon EC-2 instance g2.2xlarge: "error: ‘CUDNN_PROPAGATE_NAN’ was not declared in this scope"

[aaronpolhamus]

I am attempting to install caffe on an EC-2 g2.2xlarge instance with GPU support. Running ./deviceQuery from /usr/local/cuda/... returns Result = PASS. My version is 7.3.

Here's a link to my makefile.config.

And here's the output of make all:

PROTOC src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto
CXX .build_release/src/caffe/proto/caffe.pb.cc
CXX src/caffe/common.cpp
In file included from ./include/caffe/util/device_alternate.hpp:40:0,
                 from ./include/caffe/common.hpp:19,
                 from src/caffe/common.cpp:7:
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp: In function ‘void caffe::cudnn::createPoolingDesc(cudnnPoolingStruct**,  caffe::PoolingParameter_PoolMethod, cudnnPoolingMode_t*, int, int, int, int, int, int)’:
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp:136:9: error: ‘CUDNN_PROPAGATE_NAN’ was not declared in this scope
         CUDNN_PROPAGATE_NAN, h, w, pad_h, pad_w, stride_h, stride_w));
         ^
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp:15:28: note: in definition of macro ‘CUDNN_CHECK’
     cudnnStatus_t status = condition; \
                            ^
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp:136:68: error: there are no arguments to ‘cudnnSetPooling2dDescriptor_v4’ that depend on a template parameter, so a declaration of ‘cudnnSetPooling2dDescriptor_v4’ must be available [-fpermissive]
         CUDNN_PROPAGATE_NAN, h, w, pad_h, pad_w, stride_h, stride_w));
                                                                ^
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp:15:28: note: in definition of macro ‘CUDNN_CHECK’
     cudnnStatus_t status = condition; \
                        ^
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp:136:68: note: (if you use ‘-fpermissive’, G++ will accept your code, but allowing the use of an undeclared name is deprecated)
         CUDNN_PROPAGATE_NAN, h, w, pad_h, pad_w, stride_h, stride_w));
                                                                ^
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp:15:28: note: in definition of macro ‘CUDNN_CHECK’
     cudnnStatus_t status = condition; \
                            ^
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp: At global scope:
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp:141:40: error: variable or field ‘createActivationDescriptor’ declared void
 inline void createActivationDescriptor(cudnnActivationDescriptor_t* activ_desc,
                                        ^
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp:141:40: error: ‘cudnnActivationDescriptor_t’ was not declared in this scope
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp:141:69: error: ‘activ_desc’ was not declared in this scope
 inline void createActivationDescriptor(cudnnActivationDescriptor_t* activ_desc,
                                                                 ^
./include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp:142:27: error: expected primary-expression before ‘mode’
     cudnnActivationMode_t mode) {
                           ^
make: *** [.build_release/src/caffe/common.o] Error 1

Did this exact same install a month ago with no issues. I'm wondering if updates made since then to the repo might be causing the problem, and how to troubleshoot it.

Cheers

[happyharrycn]

You are probably using an older version of cuDNN (<=V3). The current master branch supports cuDNN V4 and V5.

[seanbell]

Please ask installation questions on the mailing list. This looks more like a problem with your cuDNN library version than with caffe.

From https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md:

_Please do not post usage, installation, or modeling questions, or other requests for help to Issues._
Use the caffe-users list instead. This helps developers maintain a clear, uncluttered, and efficient view of the state of Caffe.

[aaronpolhamus]

@seanbell: hadn't read the CONTRIBUTING best practices yet, thanks for setting me straight.

[aaronpolhamus]

(and for anyone else who stumbles across this, the problem was related to the cuDNN version)

[seanbell]

Glad you fixed it :)