diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9ee3c7cd..499ed1dd 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -100,21 +100,6 @@ message(STATUS "Library installation directory: ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}")
 # Configure library search paths
 #####################################################################################
 
-if(NOT "${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}" STREQUAL "")
-    # Workaround for Ubuntu/Debian which introduced the "multiarch" library
-    # directory structure, which is unsupported by CMake < 2.8.10, so we need to
-    # add paths manually
-    # see http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=12049 and
-    # http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=12037
-    list(APPEND ADDITIONAL_LIBRARY_PATHS
-         /usr/local/lib/${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}
-         /usr/lib/${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}
-         /lib/${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE})
-    message(STATUS "additional library directories: ${ADDITIONAL_LIBRARY_PATHS}")
-endif()
-
-#####################################################################################
-
 if (NOT MSVC)
 option(SIMGEAR_SHARED   "Set to ON to build SimGear as a shared library/framework" OFF)
 option(SYSTEM_EXPAT     "Set to ON to build SimGear using the system expat library" OFF)