From 5954955c37141bd0829d42a933921b57271feab1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "M. Eric Irrgang" <ericirrgang@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:48:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove an unnecessary transitive dependency of imported CMake
 target.

Refs #3777
---
 api/gmxapi/CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/api/gmxapi/CMakeLists.txt b/api/gmxapi/CMakeLists.txt
index b5313c5a8d..12b2fd4226 100644
--- a/api/gmxapi/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/api/gmxapi/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ if (GMX_LIB_MPI)
     # Ref https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.13/module/FindMPI.html#variables-for-using-mpi
     find_package(MPI COMPONENTS C)
     if (MPI_C_FOUND)
-        target_link_libraries(gmxapi PUBLIC MPI::MPI_C)
+        target_link_libraries(gmxapi PRIVATE MPI::MPI_C)
     else()
         message(FATAL_ERROR "Building gmxapi for MPI-enabled GROMACS, but no MPI toolchain found.")
     endif ()
-- 
2.22.0