diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/intel-mpi-benchmarks/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/intel-mpi-benchmarks/package.py
index 2ae469f6b96..f783841d725 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/intel-mpi-benchmarks/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/intel-mpi-benchmarks/package.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class IntelMpiBenchmarks(MakefilePackage):
     variant("ext", default=True, description="Build EXT benchmark")
     variant("io", default=True, description="Build IO benchmark")
     variant("nbc", default=True, description="Build NBC benchmark")
-    variant("p2p", default=True, description="Build P2P benchmark", when="@2018")
+    variant("p2p", default=True, description="Build P2P benchmark", when="@2018:")
     variant("rma", default=True, description="Build RMA benchmark")
     variant("mt", default=True, description="Build MT benchmark")