diff --git a/cmake/Modules/UseDynamicBoost.cmake b/cmake/Modules/UseDynamicBoost.cmake
index 590d23a12..dbfb937ce 100644
--- a/cmake/Modules/UseDynamicBoost.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Modules/UseDynamicBoost.cmake
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-# be sure that this component is searched for
-find_package (Boost COMPONENTS unit_test_framework QUIET)
+if (NOT ${Boost_UNIT_TEST_FRAMEWORK_FOUND})
+  find_package (Boost 1.44.0 COMPONENTS unit_test_framework QUIET)
+endif ()
 
 if (${Boost_UNIT_TEST_FRAMEWORK_FOUND})
   # setup to do a test compile
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/opm-core-prereqs.cmake b/cmake/Modules/opm-core-prereqs.cmake
index 58b627e30..8b3d45de1 100644
--- a/cmake/Modules/opm-core-prereqs.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Modules/opm-core-prereqs.cmake
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ set (opm-core_DEPS
 	"SuperLU"
 	# xml processing (for config parsing)
 	"TinyXML"
-	#Parser library
-	"opm-parser REQUIRED"
 	# Ensembles-based Reservoir Tools (ERT)
 	"ERT"
 	# DUNE dependency
 	"dune-common"
 	"dune-istl"
+	# Parser library for ECL-type simulation models
+	"opm-parser REQUIRED"
 	)