diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/llamafile/sgemm.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/llamafile/sgemm.cpp
index da4146ec4..b2ce2e664 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/llamafile/sgemm.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/llamafile/sgemm.cpp
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@
 
 #include "sgemm.h"
 #include "ggml-impl.h"
-#include "ggml-cpu-impl.h"
+// hack until moved into the CPU backend
+#include "../ggml-cpu-impl.h"
 #include "ggml-quants.h"
 
 #ifdef _MSC_VER