Compute device type error

Building Blender
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I’ve been searching for days and have not come up with and answer. After compiling and running Blender 2.8 I get the error

WARN (bpy.rna): /home/andrew/blender-git/blender/source/blender/python/intern/bpy_rna.c:1419 pyrna_enum_to_py: current value ‘1’ matches no enum in ‘CyclesPreferences’, ‘(null)’, ‘compute_device_type’

And of course with this, I have no GPU available. Of course downloading from Blender.org everything works fine. I have been building and rebuilding, doing make updates, rechecking dependencies and so on. There has to be something simple I’m missing.

Linux Mint 19.1

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It means you are building with CUDA support. For that you need to install the CUDA toolkit. Version 9.1 for most cards, or 10.0 for the latest RTX cards.

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Thank you. Never built anything before (except Blender several times now). For a beginner, this does not appear on the Wiki as something to look out for. Downloaded the toolkit from the repositories and everything worked as expected. Thanks again.

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