diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8c109a47b..b7381895f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -48,8 +48,14 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL(USE_TREMOR_STATIC, test "$TREMOR_STATIC" = "yes")
 TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_CONFIG(CURL,curl-config)
 TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_CONFIG(FREETYPE,freetype-config)
 # TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_PKGCONFIG(OPENSSL,openssl)
-TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_PKGCONFIG(ID3TAG,libid3tag)
-TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_PKGCONFIG(MAD,libmad)
+TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_PKGCONFIG_CHECK(ID3TAG,libid3tag)
+if test -z "$ID3TAG_CFLAGS" ; then
+	TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_PKGCONFIG(ID3TAG,id3tag)
+fi
+TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_PKGCONFIG_CHECK(MAD,libmad)
+if test -z "$MAD_CFLAGS" ; then
+	TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_PKGCONFIG(MAD,mad)
+fi
 TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_PKGCONFIG(PNG,libpng)
 TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_PKGCONFIG(AVFORMAT,libavformat)
 TUXBOX_APPS_LIB_PKGCONFIG(AVCODEC,libavcodec)