diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/cray-mpich/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/cray-mpich/package.py
index 663998c3206..80aa543879b 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/cray-mpich/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/cray-mpich/package.py
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ class CrayMpich(Package):
     version("7.7.14")
     version("7.7.13")
 
+    depends_on("cray-pmi")
+    depends_on("libfabric")
+
     # cray-mpich 8.1.7: features MPI compiler wrappers
     variant("wrappers", default=True, when="@8.1.7:", description="enable MPI wrappers")