diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 3e5eb89a..2d6f6423 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -297,9 +297,6 @@ endif()
 if (BUILDDOC)
   # Add a target to generate API documentation with Doxygen
   find_package (Doxygen REQUIRED)
-  # Set the full path to documenation (used by Doxygen STRIP_FROM_PATH) to
-  # generate html documentation with relative paths
-  set (DOXYGEN_STRIP_FROM_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})
   configure_file (${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/doxy/Doxyfile.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Doxyfile @ONLY)
   if (BUILDSWIGJAVA)
       configure_file (${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/doxy/Doxyfile.java.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Doxyfile-java @ONLY)