Nixpkgs version

• Unstable (25.11)

Describe the bug

As of now, the rocprofiler package seems to be useless, as hsa-amd-aqlprofile-bin is not linked to the profiler. Therefore, every time one tries to run the profiler, it immediately exits. I consider this a bug, as the program thus becomes unusable.

I have undergone an effort to try to fix this issue, but to no avail:

When adding hsa-amd-aqlprofile-bin to the propagatedBuildInputs, removing optional-aql-in-cmake.patch, and patching the rocprofv2 script to point the ROCM_DIR to the correct location (containing a symlink-joined version of clr, hsa-amd-aqlprofile-bin, roctracer, etc), one instead receives the error aqlprofile API table load failed: HSA_STATUS_ERROR: A generic error has occurred.. This is despite libhsa-amd-aqlprofile64.so.1 being loaded in as a library, which I could deduce using ldd.

An strace reveals that there does not seem to be any problems loading the hsa so lib. However, librocprofv2_att.so does not seem to be loaded in (the program does not try to do so though).

This might be a possible regression in comparison to rocmPackages_5.rocprofiler, as this version had a patch which also put the ROCM_DIR variable under the caller's control.

Steps to reproduce

1. Drop in a shell with rocprofiler
2. Run rocprofv2 --list-counters
3. Observe that even this basic debug command does not work, as rocprofiler is not linked to hsa-amd-aqlprofile-bin by default. The command will return /nix/store/282lwma79pp3f8fkdj70yzwqmf00kxxy-rocprofiler-6.3.3/libexec/rocprofiler/ctrl: symbol lookup error: /nix/store/282lwma79pp3f8fkdj70yzwqmf00kxxy-rocprofiler-6.3.3/lib/librocprofiler64.so.2: undefined symbol: hsa_ven_amd_aqlprofile_iterate_data

Expected behaviour

Running the command should list the counters, and one should be able to actually use the profiler.

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System metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 6.15.2, NixOS, 25.11 (Xantusia), 25.11pre814309.ee930f9755f5
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.28.3
• channels(root): "home-manager, nixos"
• nixpkgs: /nix/store/59ls65ppq5jhlxjgg180sjv2darsnhpc-nixos/nixos

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