Install issues after latest updates

[mrebersv]

1. Thank you so much for putting all of this together. On initial GH releases that are popular, you'll run into a lot of nitpicky issues, but it'll stop taking so much time after a week or two.
2. There's an unidentified dependency, yq. It should be in all major repositories, so it's really just adding it in the "Quick Start" section of strix-halo/README.md
3. The bigger issue: During step 3, there's a virtual environment issue. Below is the last relevant section of my output (anything before this is just normal success messages):

 ━━ [3/36] Build TheRock (this will take several hours)

  info  Building TheRock with 32 cores...
  info  This is the longest step. Expected time: 2-4 hours.
  info  Monitor progress: tail -f /opt/src/vllm/build.log
  info  Applying 6 patches for therock...
  info    [0] compiler/pre_hook_amd-llvm.cmake: Enable Polly polyhedral loop optimizer in LLVM build. Not in default LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS but provides loop tiling and vectorization benefits for downstream numerical code.
  info    [1] third-party/sysdeps/linux/elfutils/CMakeLists.txt: Disable -Werror in elfutils. Clang 21+ and GCC 15+ reject implicit const void* -> struct* conversions from bsearch(), which elfutils has in multiple call sites.
  info    [2] external/rocprofiler-sdk/external-rocprofiler-sdk/external/yaml-cpp/src/emitterutils.cpp: not found, skipping
  info    [3] external/rocprofiler-sdk/external-rocprofiler-sdk/external/elfio/elfio/elf_types.hpp: not found, skipping
  warn    [4] Source not found: /opt/src/vllm/therock/build/compiler/amd-llvm/stage/lib/llvm/lib/objects-Release
  warn    [5] Source not found: /opt/src/vllm/therock/build/compiler/amd-llvm/build/bin/FileCheck
  info  Installing 6 build dependencies for therock...
error: No virtual environment found; run `uv venv` to create an environment, or pass `--system` to install into a non-virtual environment

4. Thanks again for all the work and help in all of this. I know it can feel super un-glamorous, especially early in a new repo's life. It is appreciated, whether you hear it or not

[tiagocpontesp]

#6

[mrebersv]

I tried just manually installing the venv using uv, activating in my terminal, and kicking off the script. That didn't work, but using python's venv module did. I already had done the uv venv stuff so re-used that. Here were the actual commands for me on Omarchy. You shouldn't need to do it this way, but for the sake of having everything for anyone coming across this later, here it is:

(in the strix-halo/ folder from the repo, but this also shouldn't matter)

uv venv .venv                      ### this shouldn't be necessary
source .venv/bin/activate    ### neither should this...the next lines are necessary
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate   ### There we go!  Now it looks like it's working
pip install mako                  ### You're going to run into this missing, so might as well install it now

Now, I get stopped further down the line with the following message. I'll open a new ticket, but I figured I'd mention it here since someone else is likely to run into this as well:

[rocshmem configure] -- Performing Test HIP_CLANG_SUPPORTS_PARALLEL_JOBS - Success
[rocshmem configure] -- Resolving super-project find_package(hsa-runtime64 REQUIRED BYPASS_PROVIDER NO_DEFAULT_PATH PATHS /opt/src/vllm/therock/build/core/ROCR-Runtime/dist/lib/cmake/hsa-runtime64)
[rocshmem configure] -- Resolving system find_package(Threads) (not found in super-project ZLIB;zstd;NUMA;BZip2;liblzma;LibElf;libdw;AMDDeviceLibs;Clang;LLD;LLVM;amd_comgr;rocm-core;rocm-kpack;rocprofiler-register;hsakmt;hsa-runtime64;hip;HIP;hip-lang;hiprtc;ROCmCMakeBuildTools;ROCM;fmt;GTest)
[rocshmem configure] -- rocm-cmake: Set license file to /opt/src/vllm/therock/rocm-systems/projects/rocshmem/LICENSE.md.
[rocshmem configure] -- Set RPATH $ORIGIN/../lib/rocm_sysdeps/lib;$ORIGIN/../lib/llvm/lib;$ORIGIN/../lib on rocshmem_info
[rocshmem configure] -- Configuring done (4.7s)
[rocshmem configure] -- Generating done (0.0s)
[rocshmem configure] CMake Warning:
[rocshmem configure]   Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:
[rocshmem configure]
[rocshmem configure]     BUILD_TESTS
[rocshmem configure]     PATCHELF
[rocshmem configure]     SOURCE_DIR
[rocshmem configure]     THEROCK_STAGE_INSTALL_ROOT
[rocshmem configure]
[rocshmem configure]
[rocshmem configure] -- Build files have been written to: /opt/src/vllm/therock/build/comm-libs/rocshmem/build
[rocshmem configure SUCCEEDED in 5 seconds]
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

[LMtx]

@mrebersv were you able to resolve the 'ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed' issue?