diff --git a/travis/nwchem.bashrc b/travis/nwchem.bashrc
index 91d63a0686..7e34e432d8 100644
--- a/travis/nwchem.bashrc
+++ b/travis/nwchem.bashrc
@@ -29,16 +29,12 @@ echo NWCHEM_TOP is $NWCHEM_TOP
 #TARBALL=https://github.com/nwchemgit/nwchem/releases/download/v7.0.0-beta1/nwchem-7.0.0-release.revision-5bcf0416-src.2019-11-01.tar.bz2
 export USE_MPI=y
 export MPICH_INTERFACE_HOSTNAME=localhost # fix for Mpich interface errors
-if [[ "$FC" == "flang" ]]; then
+if [[ "$FC" == *'flang'* ]] || [[ "$FC" == *'nvfortran'* ]]; then
      export BUILD_MPICH=1
 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" == 'flang-new-'* ]]; then
-    export BUILD_MPICH=1
 fi
 
 if [[ "$FC" == "nvfortran" ]]; then