diff -urN vigra-1.9.0.old/CMakeLists.txt vigra-1.9.0/CMakeLists.txt
--- vigra-1.9.0.old/CMakeLists.txt	2013-06-04 13:38:43.158564579 +0200
+++ vigra-1.9.0/CMakeLists.txt	2013-06-04 13:45:19.290550486 +0200
@@ -57,13 +57,27 @@
 #     search for dependencies
 #
 ##################################################
+OPTION(WITH_TIFF "Enable tiff support" ON)
+OPTION(WITH_JPEG "Enable jpeg support" ON)
+OPTION(WITH_PNG "Enable png support" ON)
+OPTION(WITH_OPENEXR "Enable openexr support" ON)
+OPTION(WITH_FFTW3 "Enable fftw support" ON)
+OPTION(ENABLE_DOC "Build documentation" ON)
 
 INCLUDE(VigraFindPackage)
-VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(TIFF NAMES libtiff)
-VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(JPEG NAMES libjpeg)
-VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(PNG)
-VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(FFTW3 NAMES libfftw3-3 libfftw-3.3)
-VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(FFTW3F NAMES libfftw3f-3 libfftwf-3.3)
+IF(WITH_TIFF)
+    VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(TIFF NAMES libtiff)
+ENDIF()
+IF(WITH_JPEG)
+    VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(JPEG NAMES libjpeg)
+ENDIF()
+IF(WITH_PNG)
+    VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(PNG)
+ENDIF()
+IF(WITH_FFTW3)
+    VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(FFTW3 NAMES libfftw3-3 libfftw-3.3)
+    VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(FFTW3F NAMES libfftw3f-3 libfftwf-3.3)
+ENDIF()
 IF(WITH_OPENEXR)
     VIGRA_FIND_PACKAGE(OpenEXR)
 ENDIF()
@@ -72,8 +86,10 @@
 ENDIF()
 
 SET(DOXYGEN_SKIP_DOT TRUE)
+IF(ENABLE_DOC)
 FIND_PACKAGE(Doxygen)
 FIND_PACKAGE(PythonInterp)
+ENDIF()
 
 IF(WITH_VIGRANUMPY)
     FIND_PACKAGE( VIGRANUMPY_DEPENDENCIES )
diff -urN vigra-1.9.0.old/vigranumpy/docsrc/CMakeLists.txt vigra-1.9.0/vigranumpy/docsrc/CMakeLists.txt
--- vigra-1.9.0.old/vigranumpy/docsrc/CMakeLists.txt	2013-06-04 13:38:43.207564577 +0200
+++ vigra-1.9.0/vigranumpy/docsrc/CMakeLists.txt	2013-06-04 13:45:51.962549323 +0200
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-IF(PYTHON_SPHINX)
+IF(PYTHON_SPHINX AND ENABLE_DOC)
     # vigranumpy documentation generation using sphinx
     IF(DEFINED VIGRANUMPY_DOCDIR)
         MESSAGE(SEND_ERROR "VIGRANUMPY_DOCDIR already defined! Please delete from Cache.")
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
             ${VIGRANUMPY_DOCDIR}
         COMMENT "Generating vigranumpy documentation")
 
-ELSE(PYTHON_SPHINX)
+ELSE(PYTHON_SPHINX AND ENABLE_DOC)
     # no vigranumpy documentation if sphinx not available
     ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET (doc_python 
         ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
         "(sphinx-build not found)"
         VERBATIM)
 
-ENDIF(PYTHON_SPHINX)
+ENDIF(PYTHON_SPHINX AND ENABLE_DOC)
 
 ADD_DEPENDENCIES(doc_python vigranumpy)
 ADD_DEPENDENCIES(doc_python doc_cpp)