diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9577f513..131a909a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ set (${project}_DEPS
 	# Ensembles-based Reservoir Tools (ERT)
 	"ERT"
 	# DUNE dependency
+	"dune-common"
 	"dune-istl"
 	)
 
@@ -55,6 +56,17 @@ enable_language (CXX)
 set (${project}_MODULE_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/Modules")
 list (APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${${project}_MODULE_DIR})
 
+# include special
+if (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS "2.8.5")
+	message (STATUS "Enabling compatibility modules for CMake 2.8.5")
+	list (APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${${project}_MODULE_DIR}/compat-2.8.5")	
+endif (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS "2.8.5")	
+
+if (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS "2.8.7")
+	message (STATUS "Enabling compatibility modules for CMake 2.8.7")
+	list (APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${${project}_MODULE_DIR}/compat-2.8.7")
+endif (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS "2.8.7")
+
 # print system information to better pinpoint issues from log alone
 include (UseSystemInfo)
 system_info ()
@@ -67,12 +79,6 @@ vcs_info ()
 include (UseCompVer)
 compiler_info ()
 
-# include special
-if (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS "2.8.7")
-	message (STATUS "Enabling backward compatibility modules for CMake ${CMAKE_VERSION}")
-	list (APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${${project}_MODULE_DIR}/compat-2.8.7")
-endif (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS "2.8.7")
-
 # default settings: build static debug library
 include (OpmDefaults)
 opm_defaults (${project})
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/DuneCompat.cmake b/cmake/Modules/DuneCompat.cmake
index 1b16fbd8..a9cd6884 100644
--- a/cmake/Modules/DuneCompat.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Modules/DuneCompat.cmake
@@ -23,9 +23,15 @@ if (CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Unix Makefiles")
 endif (CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Unix Makefiles")
 
 # dunecontrol refuses to use a build tree as module directory unless
-# there is a dune.module in it
-if (NOT PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR STREQUAL PROJECT_BINARY_DIR)
+# there is a dune.module in it. however, if we are in a sub-dir. of
+# the source, we are probably using dunecontrol with a --build-dir
+# argument, and won't call dunecontrol from the parent (which is the
+# source dir and most likely doesn't contain other projects) anyway,
+# i.e. we only copy if we are truly out-of-source
+string (LENGTH "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/" _src_dir_len)
+string (SUBSTRING "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/" 0 ${_src_dir_len} _proj_prefix)
+if (NOT "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/" STREQUAL "${_proj_prefix}")
   execute_process (COMMAND
 	${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/dune.module ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/dune.module
 	)
-endif (NOT PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR STREQUAL PROJECT_BINARY_DIR)
+endif (NOT "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/" STREQUAL "${_proj_prefix}")
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/FindSuiteSparse.cmake b/cmake/Modules/FindSuiteSparse.cmake
index fb7a4f7b..d5fb546a 100644
--- a/cmake/Modules/FindSuiteSparse.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Modules/FindSuiteSparse.cmake
@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ endif (NOT BLAS_FOUND)
 if (NOT LAPACK_FOUND)
   find_package (LAPACK ${SuiteSparse_QUIET} REQUIRED)
 endif (NOT LAPACK_FOUND)
-set (SuiteSparse_EXTRA_LIBS ${LAPACK_LIBRARIES} ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
+
+# we also need the math part of the runtime library
+find_library (MATH_LIBRARY NAMES "m")
+set (SuiteSparse_EXTRA_LIBS ${LAPACK_LIBRARIES} ${BLAS_LIBRARIES} ${MATH_LIBRARY})
 
 # search paths for the library outside of standard system paths. these are the
 # paths in which the package managers on various distros put the files
@@ -178,21 +181,26 @@ if (UMFPACK_LIBRARY)
   if (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITHOUT_CHOLMOD)
 	list (APPEND UMFPACK_EXTRA_LIBS ${AMD_LIBRARIES})
   else (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITHOUT_CHOLMOD)
-	try_compile_umfpack (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITH_CHOLMOD ${CHOLMOD_LIBRARIES})
-	if (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITH_CHOLMOD)
-	  list (APPEND UMFPACK_EXTRA_LIBS ${CHOLMOD_LIBRARIES})
-	else (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITH_CHOLMOD)
+	if (CHOLMOD_LIBRARIES)
+	  try_compile_umfpack (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITH_CHOLMOD ${CHOLMOD_LIBRARIES})
+	  if (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITH_CHOLMOD)
+		list (APPEND UMFPACK_EXTRA_LIBS ${CHOLMOD_LIBRARIES})
+	  else (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITH_CHOLMOD)
+		set (UMFPACK_EXTRA_LIBS "-NOTFOUND")
+	  endif (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITH_CHOLMOD)
+	else (CHOLMOD_LIBRARIES)
+	  # if we don't have cholmod, then we certainly cannot have umfpack with cholmod
 	  set (UMFPACK_EXTRA_LIBS "-NOTFOUND")
-	endif (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITH_CHOLMOD)
+	endif (CHOLMOD_LIBRARIES)
   endif (HAVE_UMFPACK_WITHOUT_CHOLMOD)
   # test if umfpack is underlinked (CentOS 5.9), i.e. doesn't specify
   # that it depends on amd. in that case, force amd to be linked
-  if ((CMAKE_CXX_PLATFORM_ID STREQUAL "Linux") AND CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC)
+  if (UMFPACK_EXTRA_LIBS AND (CMAKE_CXX_PLATFORM_ID STREQUAL "Linux") AND CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC)
 	try_compile_umfpack (HAVE_UMFPACK_NOT_UNDERLINKED "-Wl,--as-needed" ${UMFPACK_EXTRA_LIBS})
 	if (NOT HAVE_UMFPACK_NOT_UNDERLINKED)
 	  list (APPEND UMFPACK_LINKER_FLAGS "-Wl,--no-as-needed")
 	endif (NOT HAVE_UMFPACK_NOT_UNDERLINKED)
-  endif ((CMAKE_CXX_PLATFORM_ID STREQUAL "Linux") AND CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC)
+  endif (UMFPACK_EXTRA_LIBS AND (CMAKE_CXX_PLATFORM_ID STREQUAL "Linux") AND CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC)
   list (APPEND UMFPACK_LIBRARIES ${UMFPACK_EXTRA_LIBS})
   list (REVERSE UMFPACK_LIBRARIES)
   list (REMOVE_DUPLICATES UMFPACK_LIBRARIES)
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/compat-2.8.5/FindGit.cmake b/cmake/Modules/compat-2.8.5/FindGit.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..af316d81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/Modules/compat-2.8.5/FindGit.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# The module defines the following variables:
+#   GIT_EXECUTABLE - path to git command line client
+#   GIT_FOUND - true if the command line client was found
+# Example usage:
+#   find_package(Git)
+#   if(GIT_FOUND)
+#     message("git found: ${GIT_EXECUTABLE}")
+#   endif()
+
+#=============================================================================
+# Copyright 2010 Kitware, Inc.
+#
+# Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD License (the "License");
+# see accompanying file Copyright.txt for details.
+#
+# This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
+# implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+# See the License for more information.
+#=============================================================================
+# (To distribute this file outside of CMake, substitute the full
+#  License text for the above reference.)
+
+# Look for 'git' or 'eg' (easy git)
+#
+set(git_names git eg)
+
+# Prefer .cmd variants on Windows unless running in a Makefile
+# in the MSYS shell.
+#
+if(WIN32)
+  if(NOT CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "MSYS")
+    set(git_names git.cmd git eg.cmd eg)
+  endif()
+endif()
+
+find_program(GIT_EXECUTABLE
+  NAMES ${git_names}
+  PATH_SUFFIXES Git/cmd Git/bin
+  DOC "git command line client"
+  )
+mark_as_advanced(GIT_EXECUTABLE)
+
+# Handle the QUIETLY and REQUIRED arguments and set GIT_FOUND to TRUE if
+# all listed variables are TRUE
+
+include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
+find_package_handle_standard_args(Git DEFAULT_MSG GIT_EXECUTABLE)