diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ebc34650..89af3294 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
 
 if(BUILD_FAIRMQ)
   find_package2(PUBLIC Boost VERSION 1.64 REQUIRED
-    COMPONENTS container program_options thread system filesystem regex date_time signals
+    COMPONENTS container program_options thread system filesystem regex date_time
   )
   # Normalize Boost version
   if(CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS 3.15)
diff --git a/fairmq/CMakeLists.txt b/fairmq/CMakeLists.txt
index a17284bb..3982c0d1 100644
--- a/fairmq/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/fairmq/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -251,7 +251,6 @@ target_link_libraries(${_target}
   Boost::filesystem
   Boost::regex
   Boost::date_time
-  Boost::signals
   FairLogger::FairLogger
 
   PRIVATE # only libFairMQ links against private dependencies