cudf: [BUG] nvcc fatal : A single input file is required for a non-link phase when an outputfile is specified

Describe the bug When building from source, ‘make’ produces “nvcc fatal : A single input file is required for a non-link phase when an outputfile is specified” error.

Steps/Code to reproduce bug

After completing cmake successfully in build directory, running ‘make’ produces “nvcc fatal : A single input file is required…” error as below.

~/files/cudf/cpp$ mkdir build && cd build

~/files/cudf/cpp/build$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/anaconda3 -DCMAKE_CXX11_ABI=OFF

~/files/cudf/cpp/build$ make
Scanning dependencies of target rmm
Scanning dependencies of target stringify
[  0%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/stringify.dir/thirdparty/jitify/stringify.cpp.o
[  1%] Building CXX object rmm/CMakeFiles/rmm.dir/src/rmm.cpp.o
[  2%] Linking CXX executable stringify
[  2%] Built target stringify
[  2%] Building CXX object rmm/CMakeFiles/rmm.dir/src/memory_manager.cpp.o
[  3%] Building CXX object rmm/CMakeFiles/rmm.dir/thirdparty/cnmem/src/cnmem.cpp.o
Scanning dependencies of target stringify_run
[  4%] Run stringify on header types.h to convert it to c-str for use in JIT compiled code
[  4%] Built target stringify_run
[  5%] Linking CXX shared library librmm.so
[  5%] Built target rmm
Scanning dependencies of target random_allocate
Scanning dependencies of target cudf
[  6%] Building CXX object rmm/tests/CMakeFiles/random_allocate.dir/performance/random_allocate.cpp.o
In file included from /usr/include/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/bits/libc-header-start.h:33,
                 from /usr/include/limits.h:26,
                 from /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/8/include-fixed/limits.h:194,
                 from /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/8/include-fixed/syslimits.h:7,
                 from /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/8/include-fixed/limits.h:34,
                 from /usr/local/cuda/targets/ppc64le-linux/include/driver_types.h:77,
                 from /usr/local/cuda/targets/ppc64le-linux/include/builtin_types.h:59,
                 from /usr/local/cuda/targets/ppc64le-linux/include/cuda_runtime_api.h:139,
                 from /home/u0017649/files/cudf/cpp/thirdparty/rmm/tests/performance/random_allocate.cpp:17:
/usr/include/features.h:184:3: warning: #warning "_BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE are deprecated, use _DEFAULT_SOURCE" [-Wcpp]
 # warning "_BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE are deprecated, use _DEFAULT_SOURCE"
   ^~~~~~~
[  6%] Linking CXX executable ../../bench/random_allocate
[  6%] Built target random_allocate
Scanning dependencies of target RMM_TEST
[  6%] Building CXX object rmm/tests/CMakeFiles/RMM_TEST.dir/memory_tests.cpp.o
[  6%] Building CUDA object CMakeFiles/cudf.dir/src/comms/ipc/ipc.cu.o
nvcc fatal   : A single input file is required for a non-link phase when an outputfile is specified
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/cudf.dir/build.make:63: CMakeFiles/cudf.dir/src/comms/ipc/ipc.cu.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1003: CMakeFiles/cudf.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[  7%] Linking CXX executable ../../gtests/RMM_TEST
[  7%] Built target RMM_TEST
make: *** [Makefile:141: all] Error 2

Expected behavior ‘make’ should be completed without error.

Environment details (please complete the following information):

• Environment location: IBM POWER8 cloud
• Method of cuDF install: from source

~/files/cudf$ ./print_env.sh
**git***
commit e0acdc616a71f52712f34deade8ec014542d0e17 (HEAD -> branch-0.7, origin/branch-0.7, origin/HEAD)
Merge: e69b1c20 07bd910d
Author: Mark Harris <mharris@nvidia.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 27 16:18:04 2019 +1100

    Merge pull request #1293 from Shakeebbk/master

    Fix Inaccurate error message in join.pyx

***OS Information***
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=cosmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)"
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VERSION_ID="18.10"
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SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=cosmic
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Linux sys-97541 4.18.0-11-generic #12-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 23 19:20:58 UTC 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

***GPU Information***
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.


***CPU***
Architecture:        ppc64le
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core:  2
Core(s) per socket:  1
Socket(s):           1
NUMA node(s):        1
Model:               2.1 (pvr 004b 0201)
Model name:          POWER8E (raw), altivec supported
Hypervisor vendor:   KVM
Virtualization type: para
L1d cache:           64K
L1i cache:           32K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0,1

***CMake***
/home/u0017649/anaconda3/bin/cmake
cmake version 3.12.2

CMake suite maintained and supported by Kitware (kitware.com/cmake).

***g++***
/usr/bin/g++
g++ (Ubuntu 8.2.0-7ubuntu1) 8.2.0
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


***nvcc***
/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2019 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Fri_Feb__8_19:09:58_PST_2019
Cuda compilation tools, release 10.1, V10.1.105

***Python***
/home/u0017649/anaconda3/bin/python
Python 3.7.0

***Environment Variables***
PATH                            : /home/u0017649/anaconda3/bin:/usr/local/cuda/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH                 : /home/u0017649/anaconda3/lib:/usr/local/cuda/lib64:/usr/local/lib64:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib64:/usr/lib:/lib64:/lib
NUMBAPRO_NVVM                   :
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