From 72688312036aed96bb5bdb306aabed1e3d315fed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Titus von Koeller <9048635+Titus-von-Koeller@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:08:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] adjust path to prefer pip installed cmake

---
 .github/workflows/python-package.yml | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
index be7db0079..89ae4524e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
@@ -184,10 +184,14 @@ jobs:
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
         cache: pip
-    - name: Upgrade CMake
+    - name: Install recent CMake and adjust PATH accordingly
       # (needed due to old nvidia/cuda:*ubuntu20.04 being consciously used for many_linux compatibility)
       run: |
         pip install -q cmake==3.28.3
+        CMAKE_BIN_PATH=$(pip show cmake | grep Location | cut -d' ' -f2)/bin
+        echo "CMAKE_BIN_PATH=$CMAKE_BIN_PATH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        echo "PATH=$CMAKE_BIN_PATH:$PATH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        which cmake
     - name: Install build package
       shell: bash
       run: pip install build

From 72c5d97920a1fe935210657b158c9b1a89906400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Titus von Koeller <9048635+Titus-von-Koeller@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:09:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] default to CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release for optimized
 releases and better many_linux compatibility

---
 CMakeLists.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d6384cb3c..e922d2bff 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.22.1)
 
 project(bitsandbytes LANGUAGES CXX)
 
+# If run without specifying a build type, default to using the Release configuration:
+#    optimizing the generated binaries for performance and also adds the `-DNDEBUG` flag,
+#    which turns off a bunch of asserts which seem to link to new symbols in libstdc++,
+#    worsening our many_linux compliance..
+if(NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
+    set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release)
+endif()
+
 if (CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX)
    add_compile_definitions(_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1)
 endif()