diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ec4701030e..081aa4d56d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15 FATAL_ERROR)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.17 FATAL_ERROR)
 # Note that this needs to happen **before** the call to project(...). This is because CMake reads
 # the CRAYPE_LINK_TYPE environment variable inside the call to project(...) and sets various flags
 # and properties based on its value. Because we are so early in the CMake processing, we have to