# building version 5.8.1 fails

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-version-5-8-1-fails/5070
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 10, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-version-5-8-1-fails/5070 "2020-08-10T18:29:26Z")
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### Author: ![Rigel](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Rigel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Rigel)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-version-5-8-1-fails/5070/5 "2020-08-11T13:52:06Z")

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Indeed, I have been pointing that out since the release of version 5.8.0:

> [@building version 5.8.0 fails](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-version-5-8-0-fails/3660):
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> Hi, I am trying to build ParaView 5.8.0 from source, but it is failing with the following output: WARNING: Target "cmTC\_42f5c" requests linking to directory "/sw/installed/impi/2018.1.163-iccifort-2018.1.163-GCC-6.4.0-2.28/intel64/lib/release\_mt". Targets may link only to libraries. CMake is dropping the item. WARNING: Target "cmTC\_42f5c" requests linking to directory "/sw/installed/impi/2018.1.163-iccifort-2018.1.163-GCC-6.4.0-2.28/intel64/lib". Targets may link only to libraries. CMake i…

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