[Issue]: Tensile should not be vendored

[bgamari]

Problem Description

It appears that hipBLASLt depends upon Tensile. However, instead of recognizing this fact, the dependency is ignored by the documentation and is instead vendored.

Vendoring of dependencies creates untold headaches for distributors as the packager needs to:

• identify the implicit dependency
• sort out what version of the dependency the package expects
• figure out how to furnish the dependency in a way that works with whatever bespoke mechanism the package has developed
• continually maintain all of the above as the package and its dependency evolve

For this reason, vendoring of dependency is highly discouraged. If hipBLASLt depends upon Tensile then there is a proper way to do so: advertise the dependency in the readme, and discover it via the usual dependency discovery mechanisms.

Operating System

Any

CPU

All

GPU

Other

Other

this is a packaging issue and not hardware specific

ROCm Version

ROCm 6.2.3, ROCm 6.2.2, ROCm 6.2.1, ROCm 6.2.0, ROCm 6.1.2, ROCm 6.1.1, ROCm 6.1.0, ROCm 6.0.2

ROCm Component

hipBLASLt

Steps to Reproduce

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(Optional for Linux users) Output of /opt/rocm/bin/rocminfo --support

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Additional Information

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