I thought a bit more about this PR. Since the 1.14.4 release of HDF5 will remove the "-shared" tools and link to the shared lib by default, I think the current check will be correct, but this also should first check if the "-shared" tool is present. If it is, either run the test with that or skip it (since the other-named tool will be statically linked). If it's not, then go ahead and perform the HDF5_IS_STATIC_ONLY check and skip the test if true. Another thing to take into account is that HDFGroup/hdf5#4046 adds a new HDF5_BUILD_STATIC_TOOLS CMake option to keep the old behavior when both static and shared libs are built. I don't really know how to handle that case here other than either checking if that option is set in HDF5's cmake configuration files, or figuring out how to determine a tool was statically linked with HDF5.