diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/abi-dumper/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/abi-dumper/package.py
index 75e90d0fb2..73fbba2aa3 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/abi-dumper/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/abi-dumper/package.py
@@ -23,5 +23,7 @@ class AbiDumper(MakefilePackage):
     depends_on('universal-ctags')
     depends_on('vtable-dumper@1.1:')
 
+    phases = ['install']
+
     def install(self, spec, prefix):
         make('prefix={0}'.format(prefix), 'install')