The “bug in my hipconfig” was due to the fact that ubuntu 16.04 updated to the 4.15 linux kernels, which aren’t supported by ROCm at this time.
So I’ve got hipconfig --platform outputting hcc like it should, but I’m still seeing the hiprng_LIBRARIES associated errors.
I’ve installed the HcSPARSE library, but I don’t really want to install HcRNG as the repo complains that it’s been superseded by rocrand, but ah well. I’ll install it and see if we can get this pytorch built with rocm.