From: David Wells <drwells@email.unc.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:54:27 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Remove the LINK_LANGUAGE:CXX generator.
X-Git-Tag: v9.5.0-rc1~428^2
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bef6958cd7cd3614fd2953db5ad94d2e5a28ae8e;p=dealii.git

Remove the LINK_LANGUAGE:CXX generator.

1. Presently, all of our tests are written in C++, so this is just for
   extra safety.
2. Link language generators were added in CMake 3.18, which we do not
   yet require.
---

diff --git a/cmake/macros/macro_deal_ii_setup_target.cmake b/cmake/macros/macro_deal_ii_setup_target.cmake
index 807fcfa9ac..2c6bba82c0 100644
--- a/cmake/macros/macro_deal_ii_setup_target.cmake
+++ b/cmake/macros/macro_deal_ii_setup_target.cmake
@@ -104,9 +104,7 @@ macro(deal_ii_setup_target _target)
       "${DEAL_II_LINKER_FLAGS} ${DEAL_II_LINKER_FLAGS_${_build}}"
       )
     shell_escape_option_groups(_link_options)
-    target_link_options(${_target} PRIVATE
-      $<$<LINK_LANGUAGE:CXX>:${_link_options}>
-      )
+    target_link_options(${_target} PRIVATE ${_link_options})
   endif()
 
   target_link_libraries(${_target} ${DEAL_II_TARGET_${_build}})