diff --git a/config/common/buildSettings.mk b/config/common/buildSettings.mk
index ecf1ad49d378262a8f9e835243a78bc5706e0558..8842e47b4a2565b457c500f6c6b18117bd0c974d 100644
--- a/config/common/buildSettings.mk
+++ b/config/common/buildSettings.mk
@@ -52,70 +52,76 @@ ARCHLIBS =
 #####################################################################
 ifeq ($(SYSTYPE), Darwin)
 
-# Commands
-CC     ?= cc
-CXX    ?= c++
-RANLIB ?= ranlib
+  # Commands
+  CC  ?= cc
+  CXX ?= c++
+
+  # Compiler flags
+  ARCHCXXFLAGS += -arch x86_64 -Wall -pedantic -fPIC
+  ARCHCFLAGS   += $(ARCHCXXFLAGS) -std=c99
+  ARCHLDFLAGS  += -Wl,-search_paths_first
+  ARCHLIBS     += -llapack -lblas -lz -lm
+endif
 
-# Compiler flags
-ARCHCXXFLAGS += -arch x86_64 -Wall -pedantic
-ARCHCFLAGS   += $(ARCHCXXFLAGS) -std=c99
-ARCHLDFLAGS  += -Wl,-search_paths_first
-ARCHLIBS     += -llapack -lblas -lz -lm
+#####################################################################
+#
+# Linux specific sys vars and ext libs
+#
+#####################################################################
+ifeq ($(SYSTYPE), Linux)
 
-# CUDA library
-CUDAVER := $(or $(CUDAVER),7.5)
-CUDA_INSTALLATION = /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-${CUDAVER}
-GENCODE_FLAGS = $(shell ${FSLDIR}/config/common/supportedGencodes.sh ${CUDA_INSTALLATION})
-LIB_CUDA = ${CUDA_INSTALLATION}/lib
-INC_CUDA = ${CUDA_INSTALLATION}/include
-NVCC = ${CUDA_INSTALLATION}/bin/nvcc
-
-#Project specific variables
-EDDYBUILDPARAMETERS="cuda=1 CUDAVER=7.5" "cpu=1"
-FDT_COMPILE_GPU=0
-PTX2_COMPILE_GPU=0
-endif # if Darwin
+ # Commands
+  CC  ?= gcc
+  CXX ?= c++
+
+  # Compiler flags
+  ARCHCFLAGS   += -fexpensive-optimizations \
+                  -Wall -pedantic -Wno-long-long -fPIC
+  ARCHCXXFLAGS += $(ARCHCFLAGS)
+  ARCHLDFLAGS  += -Wl,-rpath,'$$ORIGIN/../lib'
+  ARCHLIBS     += -lopenblas -lz -lm
+endif # if Linux
 
 #####################################################################
 #
-#       Linux specific sys vars and ext libs
-#				Makefile auto-detects gcc version for Linux
+# Linux specific sys vars and ext libs
 #
 #####################################################################
-ifeq ($(SYSTYPE), Linux)
 
-# Commands
-CC     ?= gcc
-CXX    ?= c++
-RANLIB ?= echo
-
-# Compiler flags
-ARCHCFLAGS   += -fexpensive-optimizations \
-                -Wall -pedantic -Wno-long-long
-ARCHCXXFLAGS += $(ARCHCFLAGS)
-ARCHLDFLAGS  += -Wl,-rpath,'$$ORIGIN/../lib'
-ARCHLIBS     += -lopenblas -lz -lm
-
-# CUDA development environment
-CUDAVER := $(or $(CUDAVER),9.1)
-#$(info $$CUDAVER is [${CUDAVER}])
-CUDA_INSTALLATION = /opt/cuda-${CUDAVER}
-ifdef SINGULARITY_NAME
-CUDA_INSTALLATION = /usr/local/cuda-${CUDAVER}
-endif
-ifeq ($(SINGULARITY_NAME), Centos6_Build)
-CXX11  = scl enable devtoolset-2 -- c++
-NVCC11 = scl enable devtoolset-2 -- ${CUDA_INSTALLATION}/bin/nvcc
+# CUDA library
+ifneq ($(shell which nvcc), )
+  NVCC          = nvcc
+  CUDAVER       = $(shell nvcc --version | grep -Po "release \K[0-9\.]+")
+  GENCODE_FLAGS = $(shell ${FSLDIR}/config/common/supportedGencodes.sh ${CUDAVER})
+  CUDADIR       = ${FSLDIR}
+
+  CUDACXXFLAGS = -I${CUDADIR}/include \
+                 ${GENCODE_FLAGS} \
+                 --compiler-options \
+                 "-fexpensive-optimizations -Wall -Wno-long-long -fPIC" \
+                 -DARMA_ALLOW_FAKE_GCC
+  CUDALDFLAGS  = -L${CUDADIR}/lib -lcuda -lcurand -lcudart
+
+  $(info "GPU enable")
+
+  ifeq ($(SYSTYPE), Darwin)
+
+    #Project specific variables
+    EDDYBUILDPARAMETERS = "cuda=1 CUDAVER=7.5" "cpu=1"
+    FDT_COMPILE_GPU     = 0
+    PTX2_COMPILE_GPU    = 0
+  endif # if Darwin
+
+  ifeq ($(SYSTYPE), Linux)
+
+    # Project specific variables
+    PARALLELFLAGS       = -fopenmp
+    EDDYBUILDPARAMETERS = "cuda=1 CUDAVER=8.0" "cuda=1 CUDAVER=9.1" "cpu=1"
+    FDT_COMPILE_GPU     = 1
+    PTX2_COMPILE_GPU    = 1
+  endif # if Linux
+else
+  $(info "GPU disable")
+  FDT_COMPILE_GPU  = 0
+  PTX2_COMPILE_GPU = 0
 endif
-GENCODE_FLAGS = $(shell ${FSLDIR}/config/common/supportedGencodes.sh ${CUDA_INSTALLATION})
-LIB_CUDA = ${CUDA_INSTALLATION}/lib64
-INC_CUDA = ${CUDA_INSTALLATION}/include
-NVCC = ${CUDA_INSTALLATION}/bin/nvcc
-
-# Project specific variables
-PARALLELFLAGS       = -fopenmp
-EDDYBUILDPARAMETERS = "cuda=1 CUDAVER=8.0" "cuda=1 CUDAVER=9.1" "cpu=1"
-fdt_MASTERBUILD     = COMPILE_GPU = 1
-ptx2_MASTERBUILD    = COMPILE_GPU = 1
-endif # if Linux