diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/adios/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/adios/package.py
index 7babf85b292eff862123eed91a66435df8039395..e3e63e7aef4be37bb6c69ac3cbdd0035e506ad7e 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/adios/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/adios/package.py
@@ -38,14 +38,11 @@ class Adios(Package):
     homepage = "http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/center-projects/adios/"
     url      = "https://github.com/ornladios/ADIOS/archive/v1.10.0.tar.gz"
 
-    # make -j is currently not supported
+    # make -j is currently broken
     parallel = False
 
     version('1.10.0', 'eff450a4c0130479417cfd63186957f3')
     version('1.9.0' , '310ff02388bbaa2b1c1710ee970b5678')
-    version('1.8.0' , 'c9116ec31e6b386f0e6ea5ab675c57e9')
-    version('1.7.0' , '266897ee3a390985d840bbe2935b4293')
-    version('1.6.0' , 'b3c735f3afbf552ec0d5e8152bffd778')
 
     variant('shared', default=True,
             description='Builds a shared version of the library')
@@ -73,7 +70,6 @@ class Adios(Package):
     depends_on('python', type='build')
 
     depends_on('mpi', when='+mpi')
-    # shipped within ADIOS 1.10.0+
     depends_on('mxml@2.9:')
     # optional transformations
     depends_on('zlib', when='+zlib')
@@ -127,11 +123,6 @@ def install(self, spec, prefix):
         if '+netcdf' in spec:
             extra_args.append('--with-netcdf=%s' % os.environ["NETCDF_DIR"])
 
-        if spec.satisfies('%gcc'):
-            extra_args.extend(["CC=gcc", "CXX=g++"])
-            if '+fortran' in spec:
-                extra_args.extend(["FC=gfortran"])
-
         sh = which('sh')
         sh('./autogen.sh')