diff --git a/cmake/presets/hip_amd.cmake b/cmake/presets/hip_amd.cmake
index 4b8945e0c7..2cf28c05c4 100644
--- a/cmake/presets/hip_amd.cmake
+++ b/cmake/presets/hip_amd.cmake
@@ -19,12 +19,19 @@ set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE "-O3 -DNDEBUG" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
 
 set(MPI_CXX "hipcc" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
 set(MPI_CXX_COMPILER "mpicxx" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(MPI_C "hipcc" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(MPI_C_COMPILER "mpicc" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+
+# change as needed. This is for Fedora Linux 41 and 42
+set(_libomp_root "/usr/lib/clang/18")
+# we need to explicitly specify the include dir, since hipcc will
+# compile each file twice and doesn't find omp.h the second time
 
 unset(HAVE_OMP_H_INCLUDE CACHE)
 set(OpenMP_C "hipcc" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
-set(OpenMP_C_FLAGS "-fopenmp" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(OpenMP_C_FLAGS "-fopenmp=libomp -I${_libomp_root}/include" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
 set(OpenMP_C_LIB_NAMES "omp" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
 set(OpenMP_CXX "hipcc" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
-set(OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS "-fopenmp" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS "-fopenmp=libomp -I${_libomp_root}/include" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
 set(OpenMP_CXX_LIB_NAMES "omp" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
 set(OpenMP_omp_LIBRARY "libomp.so" CACHE PATH "" FORCE)