--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -206,10 +206,6 @@
 # mpi
 check_include_file(mpi.h HAVE_MPI_H)
 
-# SA: whithout it compilation of antlr fails if there's a conflicting 
-#     version of antlr in system-wide directories
-include_directories(src)
-
 if (NOT WIN32)
     # Ncurses MANDATORY for readline on POSIX
     # -DNCURSESDIR=DIR
@@ -399,8 +395,10 @@
 
 # PLplot MANDATORY
 # -DPLPLOTDIR=DIR
-set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH ${PLPLOTDIR})
-find_package(Plplot QUIET)
+
+find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
+pkg_check_modules(PLPLOT REQUIRED plplot plplot-c++)
+
 set(HAVE_LIBPLPLOTCXXD ${PLPLOT_FOUND})
 if(PLPLOT_FOUND)
     set(LIBRARIES ${LIBRARIES} ${PLPLOT_LIBRARIES})
@@ -490,33 +488,16 @@
 # -DMAGICK=ON|OFF
 # -DMAGICKDIR=DIR
 if(MAGICK)
-  set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH ${MAGICKDIR})
-  find_package(ImageMagick QUIET COMPONENTS Magick++ MagickWand MagickCore)
-  mark_as_advanced(ImageMagick_EXECUTABLE_DIR ImageMagick_Magick++_INCLUDE_DIR ImageMagick_Magick++_LIBRARY
-    ImageMagick_MagickCore_INCLUDE_DIR ImageMagick_MagickCore_LIBRARY ImageMagick_MagickWand_INCLUDE_DIR ImageMagick_MagickWand_LIBRARY)
-  set(USE_MAGICK ${ImageMagick_FOUND})
-  if(ImageMagick_FOUND)
-    find_program(MAGICKXXCONFIG Magick++-config)
-    if(MAGICKXXCONFIG)
-      execute_process(COMMAND ${MAGICKXXCONFIG} "--libs" OUTPUT_VARIABLE MAGICKXXCONFIGLIBS OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
-      set(LIBRARIES ${LIBRARIES} ${MAGICKXXCONFIGLIBS})     
-    else(MAGICKXXCONFIG)
-      message(FATAL_ERROR "ImageMagick is required but was not found (Magick++-config).\n"
-    "Use -DMAGICKDIR=DIR to specify the ImageMagick directory.\n"
-    "Use -DMAGICK=OFF to not use it.\n"
-        "(suitable Debian/Ubuntu package: libmagick++-dev)\n"
-        "(suitable Fedora/CentOS package: ImageMagick-c++-devel)")
-    endif(MAGICKXXCONFIG)
-    set(LIBRARIES ${LIBRARIES} ${ImageMagick_LIBRARIES})
-    include_directories(${ImageMagick_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-    set(MAGICK_LIBRARIES ${ImageMagick_LIBRARIES})
-  else(ImageMagick_FOUND)
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "ImageMagick is required but was not found.\n"
-      "Use -DMAGICKDIR=DIR to specify the ImageMagick directory.\n"
-      "Use -DMAGICK=OFF to not use it.\n"
-      "(suitable Debian/Ubuntu package: libmagick++-dev)\n"
-      "(suitable Fedora/CentOS package: ImageMagick-c++-devel)")
-  endif(ImageMagick_FOUND)
+  find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
+  pkg_check_modules(Magick++ REQUIRED Magick++)
+  pkg_check_modules(MagickWand REQUIRED MagickWand)
+  pkg_check_modules(MagickCore REQUIRED MagickCore)
+
+  set(MAGICK_LIBRARIES ${Magick++_LIBRARIES} ${MagickWand_LIBRARIES} ${MagickCore_LIBRARIES})
+  set(LIBRARIES ${LIBRARIES} ${MAGICK_LIBRARIES})
+  include_directories(${Magick++_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+  include_directories(${MagickWand_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+  include_directories(${MagickCore_INCLUDE_DIRS})
 endif(MAGICK)
 
 # if GM or IM activated, we check whether Plplot is OK for that
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -186,9 +186,9 @@
 )
 endif(USE_EXPAT)
 
-add_subdirectory(antlr)
+find_library(ANTLR_LIBRARY NAMES antlr)
 
-include_directories(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/antlr ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
+include_directories(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
 link_directories(${LINK_DIRECTORIES})
 
 if(PYTHON_MODULE) #GDL.so
@@ -203,8 +203,7 @@
 	add_executable(gdl ${SOURCES})
 endif(PYTHON_MODULE)
 
-add_dependencies(gdl antlr) # be sure that antlr is built before gdl
-target_link_libraries(gdl antlr) # link antlr against gdl
+target_link_libraries(gdl ${ANTLR_LIBRARY}) # link antlr against gdl
 if (MINGW)
 target_link_libraries(gdl ws2_32)
 endif (MINGW)