It is hard to build. AMD uses cpack deb/rpm generators; and the build process requires random things in path (some built from git checkouts of other projects).

It is hard to build. AMD uses cpack deb/rpm generators; and the build process requires random things in path (some built from git checkouts of other projects). If you want to create standard deb or rpm build script for building in distro build infra, or inside mock, for rpm-based distributions, the cmake build actively makes steps to make it as difficult as possible. There used to be a talk titled something like "How to make distribution maintainers hate you" (I cannot find a link to in now); it seems that ROCm developers have seen it, took it to their hearts and then wrote several new chapters themselves. That's building. Do not even think about testing. There's a reason why it took distributions years to package it (still not done completely). The upstream project was like student projects, thrown over the wall once students stopped working at it, including the build "system".