diff --git a/o/OpenMPI/OpenMPI-1.10.7-PGI-18.5-GCC-6.3.0-2.27.eb b/o/OpenMPI/OpenMPI-1.10.7-PGI-18.5-GCC-6.3.0-2.27.eb
index 7b9bbedf..70525a19 100644
--- a/o/OpenMPI/OpenMPI-1.10.7-PGI-18.5-GCC-6.3.0-2.27.eb
+++ b/o/OpenMPI/OpenMPI-1.10.7-PGI-18.5-GCC-6.3.0-2.27.eb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ source_urls = ['http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v%(version_major_minor)s/d
 
 dependencies = [('hwloc', '1.11.7')]
 
-configopts = '--with-threads=posix --enable-shared --enable-static --enable-mpi-thread-multiple --with-verbs '
+configopts = '--with-threads=posix --enable-shared --enable-static --enable-mpi-thread-multiple '
 configopts += '--enable-mpirun-prefix-by-default '  # suppress failure modes in relation to mpirun path
 configopts += '--with-hwloc=$EBROOTHWLOC '  # hwloc support
 configopts += '--disable-dlopen '  # statically link component, don't do dynamic loading
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ configopts += '--with-cxxrtlib="-lgcc_s -lstdc++"' # for vt-mpi-unify
 preconfigopts = 'export LIBS="-ldl" && '
 
 # needed for --with-verbs
-osdependencies = [('libibverbs-dev', 'libibverbs-devel')]
+#osdependencies = [('libibverbs-dev', 'libibverbs-devel')]
 
 libs = ["mpi_cxx", "mpi_mpifh", "mpi", "ompitrace", "open-pal", "open-rte", "vt", "vt-hyb", "vt-mpi", "vt-mpi-unify"]