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ROCM Build Target or Build Instructions are incorrect

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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
75/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cmake, python
Domain
build-system, documentation

Research direction

Check the README file for the ROCM build instructions. Look at the CMakeLists.txt or build scripts to see if the target is named GGML_HIPBLAS or GGML_HIP. Update the README with the correct CMake argument, then verify by running the build command locally.

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Description

It seems that at some point the build target for ROCM was renamed from HIPBLAS to HIP. I'm not sure if this was inadvertent or deliberate, but either way, the build instructions for ROCM are incorrect. The README says to use:

CMAKE_ARGS="-DGGML_HIPBLAS=on" pip install llama-cpp-python

However, to successfully build ROCM, the command is actually:

CMAKE_ARGS="-DGGML_HIP=on" pip install llama-cpp-python

This is obviously a fairly trivial fix, but I haven't created a PR as I'm not sure if it's the docs or the build target name that is incorrect.

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