Config failure for python static build

On ubuntu 20.04, the following config gives an error for the current release head:

cmake -G Ninja ../vtk-gitlab -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \
      -DVTK_BUILD_TESTING=OFF -DVTK_PYTHON_VERSION=3 -DVTK_WRAP_PYTHON=ON

CMake Error at CMake/vtkModuleWrapPython.cmake:987 (target_link_libraries):
  INTERFACE library can only be used with the INTERFACE keyword of
  target_link_libraries

The cmake code in question:

      if (_vtk_python_UTILITY_TARGET)
        target_link_libraries("${_vtk_python_TARGET_NAME}"
          PRIVATE
            "${_vtk_python_UTILITY_TARGET}")
      endif ()

Tested with cmake 3.16.3 and with 3.21, both produced the same error.