diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 639262c92..db4cdeb60 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ if( NOT PROJECT_NAME STREQUAL CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME )
   set( ECCODES_FOUND            TRUE PARENT_SCOPE )
   set( ECCODES_DEFINITIONS      ${ECCODES_DEFINITIONS}  PARENT_SCOPE )# includes already TPL definitions
   set( ECCODES_INCLUDE_DIRS     ${ECCODES_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${ECCODES_EXTRA_INCLUDE_DIRS} PARENT_SCOPE )
-  set( ECCODES_LIBRARIES        ${ECCODES_LIBRARIES}    ${ECCODES_EXTRA_LIBRARIES} ${CMATH_LIBRARIES} PARENT_SCOPE )
+  set( ECCODES_LIBRARIES        ${ECCODES_LIBRARIES}    ${ECCODES_EXTRA_LIBRARIES} PARENT_SCOPE )
   set( ECCODES_INSTALL_EXTRA_TOOLS  ${ECCODES_INSTALL_EXTRA_TOOLS} PARENT_SCOPE )
   set( ECCODES_DEFINITION_PATH  ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${ECCODES_DEFINITION_SUFF}  PARENT_SCOPE )
   set( ECCODES_SAMPLES_PATH     ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${ECCODES_SAMPLES_SUFF}     PARENT_SCOPE )
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 04b8c752c..f385bb5ef 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -432,9 +432,8 @@ ecbuild_add_library(TARGET    eccodes
                               # griby.c gribl.c
                              ${grib_api_srcs}
                     GENERATED grib_api_version.c
-                    LIBS      ${ECCODES_EXTRA_LIBRARIES} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT}
-                    TEMPLATES ${grib_api_extra_srcs}
-                    ${CMATH_LIBRARIES}  )
+                    LIBS      ${ECCODES_EXTRA_LIBRARIES} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} ${CMATH_LIBRARIES}
+                    TEMPLATES ${grib_api_extra_srcs})
 
 
 install( FILES grib_api.h eccodes.h eccodes_windef.h DESTINATION ${INSTALL_INCLUDE_DIR} )