diff --git a/apps/mwiniimporter/importer.cpp b/apps/mwiniimporter/importer.cpp
index 00774d7982..efebe5a4d0 100644
--- a/apps/mwiniimporter/importer.cpp
+++ b/apps/mwiniimporter/importer.cpp
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <sstream>
 #include <components/misc/stringops.hpp>
 
+#include <boost/version.hpp>
 #include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
 #include <boost/filesystem/fstream.hpp>
 
@@ -885,10 +886,10 @@ std::time_t MwIniImporter::lastWriteTime(const boost::filesystem::path& filename
     std::time_t writeTime(defaultTime);
     if (boost::filesystem::exists(filename))
     {
-        // FixMe: remove #if when Boost on Travis Linux updated
-        // Travis seems to be using older version of boost for Linux
-        // This should allow things to build until fixed
-#if BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION == 3
+        // FixMe: remove #if when Boost dependency for Linux builds updated
+        // This allows Linux to build until then
+#if (BOOST_VERSION >= 104800)
+        // need to resolve any symlinks so that we get time of file, not symlink
         boost::filesystem::path resolved = boost::filesystem::canonical(filename);
 #else
         boost::filesystem::path resolved = filename;