diff --git a/CMakeModules/FindFreetype.cmake b/CMakeModules/FindFreetype.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 774a0ec04..000000000
--- a/CMakeModules/FindFreetype.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,141 +0,0 @@
-# - Locate FreeType library
-# This module defines
-#  FREETYPE_LIBRARY, the library to link against
-#  FREETYPE_FOUND, if false, do not try to link to FREETYPE
-#  FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS, where to find headers.
-#  This is the concatenation of the paths:
-#  FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build
-#  FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2
-#
-# $FREETYPE_DIR is an environment variable that would
-# correspond to the ./configure --prefix=$FREETYPE_DIR
-# used in building FREETYPE.
-# Created by Eric Wing.
-
-# prefer FindFreetype from cmake distribution
-if(EXISTS ${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/FindFreetype.cmake)
-  include(${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/FindFreetype.cmake)
-
-  if(FREETYPE_FOUND)
-    return()
-  endif()
-endif()
-
-# Ugh, FreeType seems to use some #include trickery which
-# makes this harder than it should be. It looks like they
-# put ft2build.h in a common/easier-to-find location which
-# then contains a #include to a more specific header in a
-# more specific location (#include <freetype/config/ftheader.h>).
-# Then from there, they need to set a bunch of #define's
-# so you can do something like:
-# #include FT_FREETYPE_H
-# Unfortunately, using CMake's mechanisms like INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES()
-# wants explicit full paths and this trickery doesn't work too well.
-# I'm going to attempt to cut out the middleman and hope
-# everything still works.
-
-FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build ft2build.h
-  PATHS
-  $ENV{FREETYPE_DIR}
-  NO_DEFAULT_PATH
-  PATH_SUFFIXES include
-)
-FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build ft2build.h
-  PATHS ${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH} # Unofficial: We are proposing this.
-  NO_DEFAULT_PATH
-  PATH_SUFFIXES include
-)
-FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build ft2build.h
-  PATHS
-  /usr/local
-  /usr
-  /usr/local/X11R6
-  /usr/local/X11
-  /usr/X11R6
-  /usr/X11
-  /sw
-  /opt/local
-  /opt/csw
-  /opt
-  /usr/freeware
-  PATH_SUFFIXES include include/freetype2
-)
-
-FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2 freetype/config/ftheader.h
-  $ENV{FREETYPE_DIR}/include/freetype2
-  NO_DEFAULT_PATH
-)
-FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2 freetype/config/ftheader.h
-  PATHS ${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH} # Unofficial: We are proposing this.
-  NO_DEFAULT_PATH
-  PATH_SUFFIXES include/freetype2
-)
-FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2 freetype/config/ftheader.h
-  /usr/local/include/freetype2
-  /usr/include/freetype2
-  /usr/local/X11R6/include/freetype2
-  /usr/local/X11/include/freetype2
-  /usr/X11R6/include/freetype2
-  /usr/X11/include/freetype2
-  /sw/include/freetype2
-  /opt/local/include/freetype2
-  /opt/csw/include/freetype2
-  /opt/include/freetype2
-  /usr/freeware/include/freetype2
-)
-
-FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2 config/ftheader.h
-  /usr/local/include/freetype2
-  /usr/include/freetype2
-  /usr/local/X11R6/include/freetype2
-  /usr/local/X11/include/freetype2
-  /usr/X11R6/include/freetype2
-  /usr/X11/include/freetype2
-  /sw/include/freetype2
-  /opt/local/include/freetype2
-  /opt/csw/include/freetype2
-  /opt/include/freetype2
-  /usr/freeware/include/freetype2
-)
-
-FIND_LIBRARY(FREETYPE_LIBRARY
-  NAMES freetype libfreetype freetype219
-  PATHS
-  $ENV{FREETYPE_DIR}
-  NO_DEFAULT_PATH
-  PATH_SUFFIXES lib64 lib
-)
-FIND_LIBRARY(FREETYPE_LIBRARY
-  NAMES freetype libfreetype freetype219
-  PATHS ${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH} # Unofficial: We are proposing this.
-  NO_DEFAULT_PATH
-  PATH_SUFFIXES lib64 lib
-)
-FIND_LIBRARY(FREETYPE_LIBRARY
-  NAMES freetype libfreetype freetype219
-  PATHS
-  /usr/local
-  /usr
-  /usr/local/X11R6
-  /usr/local/X11
-  /usr/X11R6
-  /usr/X11
-  /sw
-  /opt/local
-  /opt/csw
-  /opt
-  /usr/freeware
-  PATH_SUFFIXES lib64 lib
-)
-
-IF(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build AND FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2)
-  SET(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS "${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build};${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2}")
-ENDIF(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build AND FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2)
-
-
-SET(FREETYPE_FOUND "NO")
-IF(FREETYPE_LIBRARY AND FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS)
-  SET(FREETYPE_FOUND "YES")
-ENDIF(FREETYPE_LIBRARY AND FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS)
-
-
diff --git a/src/osgPlugins/freetype/CMakeLists.txt b/src/osgPlugins/freetype/CMakeLists.txt
index 79d3f7f7e..f29b81cf8 100644
--- a/src/osgPlugins/freetype/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/osgPlugins/freetype/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ SET(TARGET_H
 )
 
 SET(TARGET_ADDED_LIBRARIES osgText )
-SET(TARGET_LIBRARIES_VARS FREETYPE_LIBRARY )
+
+SET(TARGET_EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES ${FREETYPE_LIBRARIES} )
+
 #### end var setup  ###
 SETUP_PLUGIN(freetype)