diff --git a/externals/CMakeLists.txt b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
index 5ce55f71f66ae03f1c952d938ebd9e2de330937b..8f9810d7b673fff7ab429a183f3eb4165f903e6c 100644
--- a/externals/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -671,9 +671,9 @@ LCGPackage_Add(
 LCGPackage_Add(
   doxygen
   URL http://service-spi.web.cern.ch/service-spi/external/tarFiles/doxygen-${doxygen_native_version}.src.tar.gz
-  CONFIGURE_COMMAND ./configure --dot ${graphviz_home}/bin/dot --with-doxysearch --prefix <INSTALL_DIR>
+  CONFIGURE_COMMAND ./configure --dot ${graphviz_home}/bin/dot --prefix <INSTALL_DIR>
   BUILD_IN_SOURCE 1
-  DEPENDS graphviz xapian
+  DEPENDS graphviz
 )
 
 #---expat------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------