diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sniffles/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sniffles/package.py
index 03da487df187aeca02be598d56af2b16fc9845bd..b6dca88203f0a30b46bf61c50c8286ce991a30a8 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sniffles/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sniffles/package.py
@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ class Sniffles(CMakePackage):
     version('1.0.7', sha256='03fa703873bdf9c32055c584448e1eece45f94b4bc68e60c9624cf3841e6d8a9')
     version('1.0.5', sha256='386c6536bdaa4637579e235bac48444c08297337c490652d1e165accd34b258f')
 
+    depends_on('zlib', type='link')
+    depends_on('bamtools', type='link')
+
+    patch('unused_libs.patch')
+
+    def cmake_args(self):
+        i = self.spec['bamtools'].prefix.include.bamtools
+        return ['-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-I{0}'.format(i)]
+
     # the build process doesn't actually install anything, do it by hand
     def install(self, spec, prefix):
         mkdir(prefix.bin)
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sniffles/unused_libs.patch b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sniffles/unused_libs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a1813c454985cc66ddee2d088d573ec8cc365f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sniffles/unused_libs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+--- spack-src.org/CMakeLists.txt	2017-11-14 04:24:46.000000000 +0900
++++ spack-src/CMakeLists.txt	2019-10-08 09:10:10.409449275 +0900
+@@ -29,8 +29,4 @@
+     set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} ${OpenMP_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS}")
+ endif()
+ 
+-
+-add_subdirectory(lib/zlib-1.2.7)
+-add_subdirectory(lib/bamtools-2.3.0)
+-
+ add_subdirectory(src)
+--- spack-src.org/src/CMakeLists.txt	2017-11-14 04:24:46.000000000 +0900
++++ spack-src/src/CMakeLists.txt	2019-10-08 09:21:52.569644934 +0900
+@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
+ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
+ project(Sniffles)
+ 
+-include_directories (../lib/bamtools-2.3.0/src)
+ include_directories(../lib/tclap-1.2.1/include)
+ 
+ configure_file( Version.h.in ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/Version.h )
+@@ -32,8 +31,8 @@
+ 					)										
+ 					
+ #target_link_libraries(ngm-core pthread)	
+-TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sniffles BamTools-static)
+-TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sniffles zlibstatic)
++TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sniffles bamtools)
++TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sniffles z)
+ 	
+ add_executable(sniffles-debug 	
+                     tree/Breakpoint_Tree.cpp
+@@ -63,6 +62,6 @@
+ SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(sniffles-debug PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-g3 -O0")
+ 
+ #target_link_libraries(sniffles-debug pthread)
+-TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sniffles-debug BamTools-static)
+-TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sniffles-debug zlibstatic)
++TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sniffles-debug bamtools)
++TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sniffles-debug z)
+