Scott Todd

The motivation for this was [here on Discord](https://discord.com/channels/689900678990135345/1171953409352552489/1247219288570597517) > Compiling IREE on the jetson board with 4gb of RAM was not really fun... The compiler doesn't necessarily need to run...

Hmmm... points taken. I'm on the fence here. If we just want to opt the release build in to including CUDA and leave developer builds stuck with the previous behavior...

> I looked into this and we would still need `IREE_CUDA_AVAILABLE` to be able to build the CUDA backend because of All that controls is the default value? You should...

The discussion here bounced around a bit. Let me try to collect my thoughts... In PRs like https://github.com/iree-org/iree/pull/11976 and https://github.com/iree-org/iree/pull/14611, we moved towards more robust build system logic for getting...

Switching at least the package builds to explicitly enable features SGTM. For CI builds, I'll be okay with that if we at least check that the default configuration can configure...

The incremental nature of this change is giving me some pause. I don't want to hold this up for too long, but it sounds to me like making the changes...

Can we close this now that https://github.com/iree-org/iree/pull/17996 and https://github.com/iree-org/iree/pull/18438 are merged?

Thanks! I'm unblocked for now, since I reinstalled Python to the users path (without spaces). I at least wanted to file the issue for tracking and so other users (or...

Can you try with a debugger attached? Sometimes the tools crash in ways that don't produce messages (running through layers of Python console scripts also doesn't help)

> Do you know which commit this was having problems with? I tried with [fecccdc](https://github.com/iree-org/iree/commit/fecccdc852a7e2dda30cbb924427634acb7eb820) and didn't have an issue +1, please always include version information. It's there in the...