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Expand Up @@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ function(llama_cpp_python_install_target target)
INSTALL_RPATH "$ORIGIN"
BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH TRUE
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set_target_properties(${target} PROPERTIES
NO_SONAME TRUE
RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
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If these two settings were not configured, an issue arose where the library referenced files under the bin/ folder that did not exist.

❯ readelf -d dist/llama_cpp_python-0.3.20-py3-none-linux_x86_64/llama_cpp/lib/libggml.so

Dynamic section at offset 0xbd98 contains 29 entries:
  Tag        Type                         Name/Value
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [bin/libggml-cpu.so]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [bin/libggml-base.so]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libgcc_s.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libc.so.6]
 0x000000000000001d (RUNPATH)            Library runpath: [$ORIGIN]


❯ readelf -d dist/llama_cpp_python-0.3.20-py3-none-linux_x86_64/llama_cpp/lib/libllama.so

Dynamic section at offset 0x2dc128 contains 31 entries:
  Tag        Type                         Name/Value
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [bin/libggml.so]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [bin/libggml-base.so]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libm.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libgcc_s.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libc.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2]
 0x000000000000001d (RUNPATH)            Library runpath: [$ORIGIN]

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/d6f3030047f85a98b009189e76f441fe818ea44d/CMakeLists.txt#L20-L21

So I overrode the settings in llama-cpp.

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endif()
endif()
endfunction()
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