Updated installation instructions for BLAS backends#177
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@joelkurian what's your OS? Happy to add these instructions but the environment variables do work for me but I'm on Linux. |
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I am on ArchLinux. Environment variables work with In order to make use of environment variable, CMake needs to read it like |
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Suppress nvcc template warnings (abetlen#177, abetlen#221, abetlen#550) that flood the log with ~2500 lines of noise from llama.cpp CUDA kernels. Drop CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL from 2 to 1 — parallel nvcc with 5 arch targets causes sccache daemon OOM crash (os error 10054) on the 4-vCPU runner. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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llama.cpp does not read BLAS related environment variables while configuring build with CMake.
Instead, it needs to be passed as command line argument which correctly configures BLAS backend. It can be done by setting
CMAKE_ARGSenvironment variable.