Update 'packaging' in pip venv to stabilize setuptools.

projects/rocblas/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ rocBLAS documentation is available at
 * Reduced the default verbosity level for internal GEMM backend information
 * Updated from the deprecated rocm-cmake to ROCmCMakeBuildTools
 * Corrected AlmaLinux gfortran package dependencies
+* Included upgrade of `packaging` in addition to `pip` in Tensile Virtual Environment to stabilize `setuptools` from failures
 
 ### Upcoming changes
 

projects/rocblas/cmake/virtualenv.cmake

@@ -57,6 +57,15 @@ function(virtualenv_install)
         if(rc)
             message(FATAL_ERROR ${rc})
         endif()
+
+        message("${VIRTUALENV_BIN_DIR}/${VIRTUALENV_PYTHON_EXENAME} -m pip install --upgrade packaging")
+        execute_process(
+            RESULT_VARIABLE rc
+            COMMAND ${VIRTUALENV_BIN_DIR}/${VIRTUALENV_PYTHON_EXENAME} -m pip install --upgrade packaging
+        )
+        if(rc)
+            message(FATAL_ERROR ${rc})
+        endif()
     endif()
 
     message("${VIRTUALENV_BIN_DIR}/${VIRTUALENV_PYTHON_EXENAME} -m pip install ${ARGN}")

projects/rocblas/docs/install/Linux_Install_Guide.rst

@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ shown in the table below:
 
    "``./install.sh -h``", "Help information."
    "``./install.sh -d``", "Build the library dependencies and library in your local directory. The ``-d`` flag only needs to be used once. For subsequent invocations of ``install.sh``, it is not necessary to rebuild the dependencies."
-   "``./install.sh --upgrade_tensile_venv_pip``", "On RPM-based Linux distributions it may be required to upgrade ``pip`` for the build to succeed."
+   "``./install.sh --upgrade_tensile_venv_pip``", "On RPM-based Linux distributions it may be required to upgrade ``pip`` or ``packaging`` for the build to succeed."
    "``./install.sh``", "Build the library in your local directory. It is assumed the dependencies have been built."
    "``./install.sh -i``", "Build the library, then build and install the rocBLAS package in ``/opt/rocm/rocblas``. You will be prompted for ``sudo`` access. This installs it for all users. To keep rocBLAS in your local directory, do not use the ``-i`` flag."
 

projects/rocblas/rmake.py

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def parse_args():
                         help='Use a local path for HipBLASLt (optional)')
 
     general_opts.add_argument(      '--upgrade_tensile_venv_pip', required=False, default=False, action='store_true',
-                        help='Upgrade python pip version during Tensile installation (optional, default: False)')
+                        help='Upgrade python pip and packaging versions during Tensile installation (optional, default: False)')
 
     experimental_opts.add_argument('-u', '--use-custom-version', dest='tensile_version', type=str, required=False, default="",
                         help='Ignore Tensile version and just use the Tensile tag (optional)')