diff --git a/cmake/external/openblas.cmake b/cmake/external/openblas.cmake
index 00dde9a9fdd4d4825947b987b3e8e0460f4a5f3a..a11d18617bf3a81065dce9a99d948561c181b9d4 100644
--- a/cmake/external/openblas.cmake
+++ b/cmake/external/openblas.cmake
@@ -29,7 +29,24 @@ IF(NOT ${CBLAS_FOUND})
 
     IF(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC)
         ENABLE_LANGUAGE(Fortran)
-        LIST(APPEND CBLAS_LIBRARIES gfortran pthread)
+        if (NOT CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER_VERSION)
+          # cmake < 3.4 cannot get CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER_VERSION directly.
+          execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER} -dumpversion
+                    OUTPUT_VARIABLE CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER_VERSION)
+        endif()
+        string(REGEX MATCHALL "[0-9]+" Fortran_VERSION ${CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER_VERSION})
+        list(GET Fortran_VERSION 0 Fortran_MAJOR)
+        list(GET Fortran_VERSION 1 Fortran_MINOR)
+        find_library(GFORTRAN_LIBRARY NAMES gfortran PATHS 
+                     /lib
+                     /usr/lib
+                     /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/${Fortran_MAJOR}.${Fortran_MINOR}/
+                     /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/${Fortran_MAJOR}/)
+        if (NOT GFORTRAN_LIBRARY)
+            message(FATAL_ERROR "Cannot found gfortran library which it is used by openblas")
+        endif()
+        find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
+        LIST(APPEND CBLAS_LIBRARIES ${GFORTRAN_LIBRARY} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
     ENDIF(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC)
 
     IF(NOT CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER)