diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f4b9e6c8..6f9f957e 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ SET(PROJECT_VERSION "${SEAFILE_CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR}.${SEAFILE_CLIENT_VERSION_MI
 ADD_DEFINITIONS(-DSEAFILE_CLIENT_VERSION=${PROJECT_VERSION})
 ADD_DEFINITIONS(-DGLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=GLIB_VERSION_2_26)
 INCLUDE(FindPkgConfig)
+INCLUDE(CheckLibraryExists)
+INCLUDE(CheckFunctionExists)
+INCLUDE(CheckIncludeFiles)
 
 ## Build crash repoter on release build as default
 IF (NOT (${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} MATCHES Release))
@@ -362,6 +365,30 @@ ENDIF()
 ###### END: QT configuration
 ####################
 
+####################
+##### BEGIN FTS fix
+####################
+
+CHECK_INCLUDE_FILES("sys/types.h;sys/stat.h;fts.h" HAVE_FTS_H)
+# fts functions may be in external library
+IF(HAVE_FTS_H)
+  CHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS(fts_open HAVE_FTS_OPEN)
+  IF(NOT HAVE_FTS_OPEN)
+    CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS(fts fts_open "" HAVE_LIB_FTS)
+  ENDIF(NOT HAVE_FTS_OPEN)
+ENDIF(HAVE_FTS_H)
+
+IF(HAVE_LIB_FTS)
+  SET(FTS_LIB fts)
+ELSE()
+  SET(FTS_LIB "")
+ENDIF()
+
+####################
+###### END FTS fix
+####################
+
+
 ####################
 ###### BEGIN: pthread support is required explicitly on linux
 ####################
@@ -585,7 +612,8 @@ FUNCTION(ADD_SC_LIBRARY name)
 
     TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${name} ${QT_LIBRARIES}
         ${SQLITE3_LIBRARIES} ${JANSSON_LIBRARIES}
-        ${EXTRA_LIBS} -lglib-2.0 ${ARG_LINK_LIBS} ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES})
+        ${EXTRA_LIBS} -lglib-2.0 ${ARG_LINK_LIBS} ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES} ${FTS_LIB})
+
 ENDFUNCTION(ADD_SC_LIBRARY)
 
 # library utils