diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 51accc427e8a0079184fdbdaad2fdba9f35b9b7f..b7810653074e00dd5730f9d22fe4ab7e592f31ec 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ build:
         -DSCALFMM_BUILD_TESTS=ON
         -DSCALFMM_BUILD_UTESTS=ON
         -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON
-        -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc-7
-        -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-7
+        -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc
+        -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++
     - make -j5 2>&1 |tee scalfmm-build.log
 
 doc:
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ doc:
   script:
     - cd Build && cmake ..
         -DSCALFMM_BUILD_DOC=ON
-        -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc-7
-        -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-7
+        -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc
+        -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++
     - make doc 
 
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