diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flibcpp/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flibcpp/package.py
index 59e1433bf91..f0b0551c6c5 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flibcpp/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flibcpp/package.py
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ def cmake_args(self):
             self.define_from_variant('BUILD_SHARED_LIBS', 'shared'),
             self.define_from_variant('FLIBCPP_BUILD_DOCS', 'doc'),
             self.define_from_variant('FLIBCPP_FORTRAN_STD', 'fstd'),
+            self.define_from_variant('FLIBCPP_USE_SWIG', 'swig'),
             self.define('FLIBCPP_BUILD_TESTS', bool(self.run_tests)),
             self.define('FLIBCPP_BUILD_EXAMPLES', bool(self.run_tests)),
         ]