-- Skip ALIAS targets when stripping nonexistent include dirs from axom's
-- dependency targets in the exported CMake config, since CMake disallows
-- set_target_properties() on ALIAS targets (e.g. Kokkos::all_libs, pulled
-- in transitively when a downstream consumer like science/smith also links
-- devel/kokkos); without this guard, any downstream project's CMake
-- configure step fails with "set_target_properties can not be used on an
-- ALIAS target".

--- cmake/axom-config.cmake.in.orig	2026-10-01 18:57:13 UTC
+++ cmake/axom-config.cmake.in
@@ -328,6 +328,10 @@ if(NOT AXOM_FOUND)
 
   foreach(_target ${_deps})
     if(TARGET ${_target})
+      get_target_property(_is_alias ${_target} ALIASED_TARGET)
+      if(_is_alias)
+        continue()
+      endif()
       get_target_property(_dirs ${_target} INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
       set(_existing_dirs)
       foreach(_dir ${_dirs})