I did get past that issue with nurses & kitty! Thanks for some work there!

There are however quite a large list of other issues that have been blocking builds on systems with somewhat more modern toolchains / OSes than whatever the target is here (Ubuntu 24.04 I suspect). I really want to be able to engage directly with TheRock & compile & run it natively on Ubuntu 25.04 and now Ubuntu 26.04 too. For people eager to use the amazing leading edge capabilities TheRock offers, I suspect they too will be more bleeding edge users, also with more up to date OS choices. They are currently very blocked.

I know it's not the intent at all. There's so much good work here that seems so close & so well considered, an epic work spanning so many libraries and drivers. But this mega thread of issues gives me such vibes of the bad awful no good Linux4Tegra, where it's really one bespoke special Linux that has to be used, that nothing else works. In this case you can download the tgz and it will probably work on your system, but that means you don't have any chance to improve or iterate or contribute to TheRock, that it's a consume only relationship, and that feels bad and is a dangerous spot to be in, not having usable source.

I'd really really like to see AMD have CI test matrixes that we can see, that shows the state of the build on a variety of Linux OSes. This would give the discipline and trust that situations like what we have here do not arise. This obviously cannot hold forever, Ubuntu 24.04 is not acceptable as a build machine for perpetuity, so these problems eventually have to be tackled, but it's really a commitment to avoiding making the build work on one blessed image only that needs to happen. This situation should not have developed; for TheRock to be accepted and useful, the build needs to work on a variety of systems. We need fixes right now to make that true, and AMD needs to be showing that their commitment to that goal is real, ideally by running and showing a build matrix CI where we can see it that it does compile.