diff --git a/travis/nwchem.bashrc b/travis/nwchem.bashrc
index bb64008e1d..b7023c1198 100644
--- a/travis/nwchem.bashrc
+++ b/travis/nwchem.bashrc
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ fi
 echo NWCHEM_TOP is $NWCHEM_TOP
 #TARBALL=https://github.com/nwchemgit/nwchem/releases/download/v7.0.0-beta1/nwchem-7.0.0-release.revision-5bcf0416-src.2019-11-01.tar.bz2
 export USE_MPI=y
-if [[ "$FC" == "flang" ]] || [[ "$FC" == "amdflang" ]]; then
+if [[ "$FC" == "flang" ]]; then
     if [[ "USE_AOMP" == "Y" ]]; then
 	aomp_major=15
 	aomp_minor=0-2
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ fi
 if [[ "$FC" == "amdflang" ]]; then
     export PATH=/opt/rocm/bin:$PATH
     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/rocm-"$rocm_version"/lib:/opt/rocm/llvm/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+     export BUILD_MPICH=1
 fi
 
 if [[ "$FC" == "nvfortran" ]]; then