diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/trilinos/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/trilinos/package.py
index efed5c85435..202658cbeb1 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/trilinos/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/trilinos/package.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ class Trilinos(CMakePackage, CudaPackage):
     variant('explicit_template_instantiation', default=True, description='Enable explicit template instantiation (ETI)')
     variant('float', default=False, description='Enable single precision (float) numbers in Trilinos')
     variant('fortran', default=True, description='Compile with Fortran support')
-    variant('gotype', default='long',
+    variant('gotype', default='long_long',
             values=('int', 'long', 'long_long', 'all'),
             multi=False,
             description='global ordinal type for Tpetra')