diff --git a/generator/CMakeLists.txt b/generator/CMakeLists.txt
index d68ae2a..99ec4c2 100644
--- a/generator/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/generator/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ function (google_cloud_cpp_generator_define_tests)
     endforeach ()
 endfunction ()
 
-add_subdirectory(integration_tests)
+# add_subdirectory(integration_tests)
 
 # Only define the tests if testing is enabled. Package maintainers may not want
 # to build all the tests everytime they create a new package or when the package
diff --git a/google/cloud/CMakeLists.txt b/google/cloud/CMakeLists.txt
index 09a4b58..9c85374 100644
--- a/google/cloud/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/google/cloud/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -548,5 +548,5 @@ if (GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_GRPC)
         DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/cmake/google_cloud_cpp_grpc_utils"
         COMPONENT google_cloud_cpp_development)
 
-    add_subdirectory(samples)
+    #add_subdirectory(samples)
 endif ()
diff --git a/google/cloud/bigtable/CMakeLists.txt b/google/cloud/bigtable/CMakeLists.txt
index 399c84f..d58c910 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigtable/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/google/cloud/bigtable/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -323,12 +323,12 @@ if (BUILD_TESTING)
     add_subdirectory(tests)
 endif ()
 
-add_subdirectory(benchmarks)
+# add_subdirectory(benchmarks)
 
 if (GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_CXX_EXCEPTIONS)
     # The examples are more readable if we use exceptions for error handling. We
     # had to tradeoff readability vs. "making them compile everywhere".
-    add_subdirectory(examples)
+    #add_subdirectory(examples)
 endif (GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_CXX_EXCEPTIONS)
 
 # Export the CMake targets to make it easy to create configuration files.