diff --git a/source3/modules/wscript_build b/source3/modules/wscript_build
index 2d42a82b9fa..a5d84075872 100644
--- a/source3/modules/wscript_build
+++ b/source3/modules/wscript_build
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ bld.SAMBA3_SUBSYSTEM('NFS4_ACLS',
 
 bld.SAMBA3_SUBSYSTEM('POSIXACL_XATTR',
                  source='posixacl_xattr.c',
+                 enabled=(bld.SAMBA3_IS_ENABLED_MODULE('vfs_ceph') or bld.SAMBA3_IS_ENABLED_MODULE('vfs_glusterfs')),
                  deps='acl attr')
 
 bld.SAMBA3_LIBRARY('non_posix_acls',
diff --git a/source3/wscript b/source3/wscript
index fe3f40fe53a..5ce1b77e23b 100644
--- a/source3/wscript
+++ b/source3/wscript
@@ -1579,8 +1579,12 @@ main() {
         conf.env['CPPPATH_CEPHFS'] = Options.options.libcephfs_dir + '/include'
         conf.env['LIBPATH_CEPHFS'] = Options.options.libcephfs_dir + '/lib'
 
-    if conf.CHECK_HEADERS('cephfs/libcephfs.h', False, False, 'cephfs') and conf.CHECK_LIB('cephfs'):
-        conf.DEFINE('HAVE_CEPH', '1')
+    if conf.CHECK_HEADERS('cephfs/libcephfs.h', False, False, 'cephfs') and conf.CHECK_LIB('cephfs', shlib=True) and Options.options.with_cephfs:
+        if Options.options.with_acl_support:
+            conf.DEFINE('HAVE_CEPH', '1')
+        else:
+            Logs.warn("ceph support disabled due to --without-acl-support")
+            conf.undefine('HAVE_CEPH')
 
     if Options.options.with_glusterfs:
         conf.CHECK_CFG(package='glusterfs-api', args='"glusterfs-api >= 4" --cflags --libs',
@@ -1589,9 +1593,12 @@ main() {
         conf.CHECK_LIB('gfapi', shlib=True)
 
         if conf.CONFIG_SET('HAVE_API_GLFS_H'):
-            conf.DEFINE('HAVE_GLUSTERFS', '1')
+            if Options.options.with_acl_support:
+                 conf.DEFINE('HAVE_GLUSTERFS', '1')
+            else:
+                Logs.warn("GlusterFS support disabled due to --without-acl-support")
+                conf.undefine('HAVE_GLUSTERFS')
         else:
-            conf.SET_TARGET_TYPE('gfapi', 'EMPTY')
             conf.undefine('HAVE_GLUSTERFS')
     else:
         conf.SET_TARGET_TYPE('gfapi', 'EMPTY')