diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a7a0219d9..496b2cbb7 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ if(COMMAND cmake_policy)
     # Works around warnings about escaped quotes in ADD_DEFINITIONS
     # statements.
     cmake_policy(SET CMP0005 NEW)
+
+    # cmake-2.6.1 introduces policy cmp0008 decide how to treat full path libraries that do not appear to be valid library file names
+    # quote from cvslog "Such libraries worked by accident in the VS IDE and Xcode generators in CMake 2.4 and below."
+    if(POLICY CMP0008)
+        cmake_policy(SET CMP0008 OLD)
+    endif(POLICY CMP0008)
 endif(COMMAND cmake_policy)
 
 PROJECT(OpenSceneGraph)
diff --git a/CMakeModules/OsgMacroUtils.cmake b/CMakeModules/OsgMacroUtils.cmake
index 51ae33eb5..95bb564ea 100644
--- a/CMakeModules/OsgMacroUtils.cmake
+++ b/CMakeModules/OsgMacroUtils.cmake
@@ -30,11 +30,7 @@ MACRO(LINK_INTERNAL TRGTNAME)
                 #CMake 2.4.7, at least seem to use PREFIX instead of IMPORT_PREFIX  for computing linkage info to use into projects,
                 # so we full path name to specify linkage, this prevent automatic inferencing of dependencies, so we add explicit depemdencies
                 #to library targets used
-                IF(NOT MSVC_IDE)
-                    TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${TRGTNAME} optimized "${OUTPUT_LIBDIR}/${LINKLIB}.lib" debug "${OUTPUT_LIBDIR}/${LINKLIB}${CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX}.lib")
-                ELSE(NOT MSVC_IDE)
-                    TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${TRGTNAME} optimized "${OUTPUT_LIBDIR}/${LINKLIB}" debug "${OUTPUT_LIBDIR}/${LINKLIB}${CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX}")
-                ENDIF(NOT MSVC_IDE)
+                TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${TRGTNAME} optimized "${OUTPUT_LIBDIR}/${LINKLIB}.lib" debug "${OUTPUT_LIBDIR}/${LINKLIB}${CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX}.lib")
                 ADD_DEPENDENCIES(${TRGTNAME} ${LINKLIB})
             ELSE(MSVC AND OSG_MSVC_VERSIONED_DLL)
                 TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${TRGTNAME} optimized "${LINKLIB}" debug "${LINKLIB}${CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX}")