diff --git a/cmake/modules/DunePerftoolMacros.cmake b/cmake/modules/DunePerftoolMacros.cmake
index b41785183706378813dbd8e9b58facee7b44d908..545ec22d2436eb58ae6b9dafc69ff2e72f43a14e 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/DunePerftoolMacros.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/DunePerftoolMacros.cmake
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@
 #       Additional dependencies of the generated executable (changes in those
 #       will retrigger generation)
 #
+#    .. cmake_param:: EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
+#       :option:
+#
+#       Set this option, if you do not want the target to be automatically
+#       built. This option is forwarded to the builtin command add_executable.
+#
 #    Add an executable to the project that gets automatically
 #    generated at configure time with the form compiler uf2pdelab.
 #    Regeneration is triggered correctly if the UFL file or the
@@ -65,7 +71,7 @@ endif()
 file(GLOB_RECURSE UFL2PDELAB_SOURCES ${UFL2PDELAB_GLOB_PATTERN})
 
 function(add_generated_executable)
-  set(OPTIONS)
+  set(OPTIONS EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
   set(SINGLE TARGET SOURCE UFLFILE INIFILE)
   set(MULTI FORM_COMPILER_ARGS DEPENDS)
   include(CMakeParseArguments)
@@ -108,6 +114,11 @@ function(add_generated_executable)
                      CMAKE_MODULES)
     configure_file(${perftool_path}/StandardMain.cmake ${GEN_SOURCE})
   endif()
+  if(GEN_EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+    set(GEN_EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL "EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL")
+  else()
+    set(GEN_EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL "")
+  endif()
 
   # Generate a list of generated headers to teach CMake about
   dune_execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/run-in-dune-env python ${perftool_path}/deplist.py ${GEN_INIFILE} ${GEN_TARGET}
@@ -125,7 +136,7 @@ function(add_generated_executable)
                      COMMENT "Generating operators for the target ${GEN_TARGET}"
                     )
 
-  add_executable(${GEN_TARGET} ${GEN_SOURCE} ${GEN_DRIVER} ${header_deps})
+  add_executable(${GEN_TARGET} ${GEN_EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL} ${GEN_SOURCE} ${GEN_DRIVER} ${header_deps})
   target_include_directories(${GEN_TARGET} PUBLIC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
   add_dependencies(generation ${GEN_TARGET})
 endfunction()
diff --git a/cmake/modules/GeneratedSystemtests.cmake b/cmake/modules/GeneratedSystemtests.cmake
index 4badbae9eff808b718cfd9b7a35b6202652c6416..024d19466e543eda61fd7fd817905dd989cff2e2 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/GeneratedSystemtests.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/GeneratedSystemtests.cmake
@@ -51,11 +51,9 @@ function(dune_add_formcompiler_system_test)
                              UFLFILE ${SYSTEMTEST_UFLFILE}
                              INIFILE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${inifile}"
                              DEPENDS ${SYSTEMTEST_INIFILE}
+                             EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
                              )
 
-    # Exclude the target from all
-    set_property(TARGET ${tname} PROPERTY EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL 1)
-
     # Add dependency on the metatarget for this systemtest
     if(NOT ${INIINFO_${inifile}_suffix} STREQUAL "__empty")
       add_dependencies(${SYSTEMTEST_BASENAME} ${tname})