diff --git a/modules/mpi/dependency/MPI.cmake b/modules/mpi/dependency/MPI.cmake
index 3d2dcf19ab..5ac18c0a49 100644
--- a/modules/mpi/dependency/MPI.cmake
+++ b/modules/mpi/dependency/MPI.cmake
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# We don't need the deprecated C++ bindings, so try to suppress linkage
+# against them
+set(MPI_CXX_SKIP_MPICXX TRUE)
+
 find_package(MPI)
 
 if("${MPI_CXX_FOUND}")