diff --git a/hpctestlib/microbenchmarks/gpu/src/gpu_burn/gpu_burn.cu b/hpctestlib/microbenchmarks/gpu/src/gpu_burn/gpu_burn.cu
index 4bc4bd2e89..c54fc9eaa3 100644
--- a/hpctestlib/microbenchmarks/gpu/src/gpu_burn/gpu_burn.cu
+++ b/hpctestlib/microbenchmarks/gpu/src/gpu_burn/gpu_burn.cu
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ public:
       XMemcpy(d_B, h_B, d_resultSize, XMemcpyHostToDevice);
   }
 
-  void compute() = delete;
+  void compute();
 
   void compare() {
       int numberOfErrors;
diff --git a/hpctestlib/microbenchmarks/gpu/src/gpu_burn/makefile.hip b/hpctestlib/microbenchmarks/gpu/src/gpu_burn/makefile.hip
index 7d50014457..6ea0fd1d55 100644
--- a/hpctestlib/microbenchmarks/gpu/src/gpu_burn/makefile.hip
+++ b/hpctestlib/microbenchmarks/gpu/src/gpu_burn/makefile.hip
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 RSMI_ROOT?=/opt/rocm/rocm_smi
 
 gpu_burn:
-	hipcc -O3 $@.cu -o $@.x -DTARGET_HIP ${CXXFLAGS} -std=c++14 -I${RSMI_ROOT}/include -lnuma -lrocm_smi64 -lrocblas
+	hipcc -O3 $@.cu -o $@.x -DTARGET_HIP ${CXXFLAGS} -std=c++14 -I${RSMI_ROOT}/include -lnuma -lrocm_smi64 -lrocblas -pthreads