diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gperftools/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gperftools/package.py
index 144ac5ddc8a..0a491556896 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gperftools/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gperftools/package.py
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ def cmake_args(self):
             ),
             self.define_from_variant("GPERFTOOLS_BUILD_DEBUGALLOC", "debugalloc"),
             self.define_from_variant("gperftools_enable_libunwind", "libunwind"),
+            self.define("gperftools_build_benchmark", False),
+            self.define("BUILD_TESTING", False),
         ]