diff --git a/reco/tasks/CMakeLists.txt b/reco/tasks/CMakeLists.txt
index 6be2950ef3df9c4a56d4ef0e6f73fb25814ef771..4ba1d455fc63b76d40a8742c20514eb8fb0e09b0 100644
--- a/reco/tasks/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/reco/tasks/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -69,8 +69,11 @@ CbmBase
 CbmData
 Algo
 external::yaml-cpp
-OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX
 )
+if(OpenMP_CXX_FOUND)
+  list(APPEND DEPENDENCIES OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX)
+endif()
+
 # ---------------------------------------------------------