diff --git a/Database/APR/RootStorageSvc/CMakeLists.txt b/Database/APR/RootStorageSvc/CMakeLists.txt
index 8c428914957447311470aef0cc5bbdfdf9589463..0638c60b0e97fc5a205bb3a9855f3d673c397d6a 100644
--- a/Database/APR/RootStorageSvc/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Database/APR/RootStorageSvc/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2002-2022 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
+# Copyright (C) 2002-2023 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
 
 # Declare the package name:
 atlas_subdir( RootStorageSvc )
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ find_package( ROOT COMPONENTS Core RIO TreePlayer Tree MathCore Hist pthread ROO
 atlas_add_library( RootStorageSvc
                    src/*.cpp
                    NO_PUBLIC_HEADERS
-                   INCLUDE_DIRS ${ROOT_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${VDT_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+                   INCLUDE_DIRS ${ROOT_INCLUDE_DIRS}
                    PRIVATE_LINK_LIBRARIES ${ROOT_LIBRARIES} AthContainers AthContainersInterfaces
                    RootUtils RootUtilsPyROOT StorageSvc RootAuxDynIO POOLCore GaudiKernel
                    CxxUtils )