diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 3bf38198f..97cadf9e7 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -569,11 +569,10 @@ if (LLAMA_SYCL)
     if (WIN32)
         set(LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS ${LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS} -fsycl sycl7 OpenCL mkl_sycl_blas_dll.lib mkl_intel_ilp64_dll.lib mkl_sequential_dll.lib mkl_core_dll.lib)
     else()
-        if (LLAMA_SYCL_BACKEND STREQUAL "INTEL")
+        if (LLAMA_SYCL_TARGET STREQUAL "INTEL")
             set(LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS ${LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS} -fsycl OpenCL mkl_core pthread m dl mkl_sycl_blas mkl_intel_ilp64 mkl_tbb_thread)
         elseif (LLAMA_SYCL_TARGET STREQUAL "NVIDIA")
             set(LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS ${LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS} -fsycl pthread m dl onemkl)
-            set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -fsycl-targets=nvptx64-nvidia-cuda")
         endif()
     endif()
 endif()