[david-salinas]

The migration from hip_add_executable() to enable_language(HIP) in #5708 caused HIP test targets to inherit build-type debug flags (-g). hipcc never passed -g, so these binaries previously had no debug info and dwz skipped them. With DWARF 5 debug sections now present, dwz fails with "Unknown debugging section .debug_str_offsets", breaking DEB packaging in ASAN nightly builds (TheRock #9676).

Restore the old behaviour by appending -g0 to CMAKE_HIP_FLAGS in the test directory. These test binaries do not need debug info.

Motivation

The migration from hip_add_executable() to enable_language(HIP) in #5708 changed how CMake applies compile flags to HIP test targets. With enable_language(HIP), CMake treats HIP as a first-class language and propagates build-type debug flags (e.g. -g in ASAN builds). hipcc never passed -g to these test binaries, so they
previously had no debug info and dwz skipped them with .debug_info section not present. Now that DWARF 5 debug sections are present, dwz fails with Unknown debugging section .debug_str_offsets, breaking DEB packaging in ASAN nightly builds.

Technical Details

Append -g0 to CMAKE_HIP_FLAGS in projects/roctracer/test/CMakeLists.txt, immediately after enable_language(HIP). This restores the pre-#5708 behaviour: clang's last-flag-wins means -g0 overrides any build-type -g, the binaries carry no debug sections, and dwz exits 0.

Only the test directory is affected — the roctracer library itself is not built with HIP and is unchanged.

Affected binaries: MatrixTranspose, MatrixTranspose_ctest, MatrixTranspose_hipaact_test, MatrixTranspose_mgpu, MatrixTranspose_test, activity_and_callback, multi_pool_activities, roctx_test.

Fixes ROCm/TheRock#9676.

Issue Tracking

GitHub issue: ROCm/TheRock#9676

Test Plan

Reproduced the failure locally with dwz 0.14 and amdclang++:

• amdclang++ -g -o test test.cpp → readelf -S shows .debug_str_offsets, DWARF version 5 → dwz test exits 1 with Unknown debugging section .debug_str_offsets
• amdclang++ -g -g0 -o test test.cpp → readelf -S shows no debug sections → dwz test exits 0 with .debug_info section not present (matches pre-regression behaviour)

Test Result

• dwz exit code 0 with the fix, exit code 1 without — confirmed locally
• No functional change to test binaries (they are runtime tests, not debug targets)

Submission Checklist

• Look over the contributing guidelines at https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-systems/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[nunnikri]

Isnt it already covered with ROCm/TheRock#9681.

[david-salinas]

look like this PR already fixed this issue: ROCm/TheRock#9681