diff --git a/cmake/external/anakin.cmake b/cmake/external/anakin.cmake
index 37464485d8dd5efbb0ed55f39bbe0a85b5db7c16..bbe811fb7b53ac8575fc036ac1c41cdcfe2cfbca 100644
--- a/cmake/external/anakin.cmake
+++ b/cmake/external/anakin.cmake
@@ -2,29 +2,17 @@ if (NOT WITH_ANAKIN)
   return()
 endif()
 
+INCLUDE(ExternalProject)
 set(ANAKIN_SOURCE_DIR  ${THIRD_PARTY_PATH}/anakin)
 # the anakin install dir is only default one now
 set(ANAKIN_INSTALL_DIR ${THIRD_PARTY_PATH}/anakin/src/extern_anakin/output)
 set(ANAKIN_INCLUDE     ${ANAKIN_INSTALL_DIR})
 set(ANAKIN_LIBRARY     ${ANAKIN_INSTALL_DIR})
-SET(ANAKIN_SHARED_LIB  ${ANAKIN_LIBRARY}/libanakin.so)
-SET(ANAKIN_SABER_LIB   ${ANAKIN_LIBRARY}/libanakin_saber_common.so)
+set(ANAKIN_SHARED_LIB  ${ANAKIN_LIBRARY}/libanakin.so)
+set(ANAKIN_SABER_LIB   ${ANAKIN_LIBRARY}/libanakin_saber_common.so)
 
-# A helper function used in Anakin, currently, to use it, one need to recursively include
-# nearly all the header files.
-function(fetch_include_recursively root_dir)
-    if (IS_DIRECTORY ${root_dir})
-        include_directories(BEFORE ${root_dir})
-    endif()
-
-    file(GLOB ALL_SUB RELATIVE ${root_dir} ${root_dir}/*)
-    foreach(sub ${ALL_SUB})
-        if (IS_DIRECTORY ${root_dir}/${sub})
-            fetch_include_recursively(${root_dir}/${sub})
-        endif()
-    endforeach()
-endfunction()
-fetch_include_recursively(${ANAKIN_INCLUDE})
+include_directories(${ANAKIN_INCLUDE})
+include_directories(${ANAKIN_INCLUDE}/saber/)
 
 set(ANAKIN_COMPILE_EXTRA_FLAGS 
     -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
@@ -60,11 +48,9 @@ ExternalProject_Add(
 message(STATUS "Anakin for inference is enabled")
 message(STATUS "Anakin is set INCLUDE:${ANAKIN_INCLUDE} LIBRARY:${ANAKIN_LIBRARY}")
 
-fetch_include_recursively(${ANAKIN_INCLUDE})
-add_dependencies(extern_anakin protobuf mklml)
 add_library(anakin SHARED IMPORTED GLOBAL)
 set_property(TARGET anakin PROPERTY IMPORTED_LOCATION ${ANAKIN_SHARED_LIB})
 set_property(TARGET anakin PROPERTY IMPORTED_LOCATION ${ANAKIN_SABER_LIB})
 set_property(TARGET anakin PROPERTY IMPORTED_LOCATION ${CUDNN_LIBRARY})
-add_dependencies(anakin extern_anakin)
+add_dependencies(anakin extern_anakin protobuf mklml)
 list(APPEND external_project_dependencies anakin)
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/CMakeLists.txt b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/CMakeLists.txt
index 097a9eb8477da59916d3f90a707b4b3bb7636f4d..e9bb1d1c4faaa892d4566f0c9064e8a20446e33e 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/inference/api/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/paddle/fluid/inference/api/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ endif()
 
 if (WITH_ANAKIN) # only needed in CI
     # compile the libinference_anakin_api.a and anakin.so.
-    fetch_include_recursively(${ANAKIN_INCLUDE})
     nv_library(inference_anakin_api SRCS api.cc api_anakin_engine.cc DEPS anakin)
     nv_library(inference_anakin_api_shared SHARED SRCS api.cc api_anakin_engine.cc DEPS anakin)
     set(ANAKIN_DEPS_LIB ${ANAKIN_SHARED_LIB} ${ANAKIN_SABER_LIB} ${CUDNN_LIBRARY})
@@ -73,12 +72,11 @@ if (WITH_ANAKIN) # only needed in CI
     anakin_target(inference_anakin_api)
     anakin_target(inference_anakin_api_shared)
     if (WITH_TESTING)
+        # TODO(luotao): anakin_model will move to demo_ci later
         set(ANAKIN_MODLE_URL "http://paddle-inference-dist.bj.bcebos.com/mobilenet_v2.anakin.bin")
-        add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/.timestamp
-          COMMAND cd ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} && wget --no-check-certificate ${ANAKIN_MODLE_URL}
-          WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+        execute_process(COMMAND bash -c "cd ${ANAKIN_INSTALL_DIR}; wget -q --no-check-certificate ${ANAKIN_MODLE_URL}")
         cc_test(inference_anakin_test SRCS api_anakin_engine_tester.cc
-                ARGS --model=${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mobilenet_v2.anakin.bin
+                ARGS --model=${ANAKIN_INSTAL_DIR}/mobilenet_v2.anakin.bin
                 DEPS inference_anakin_api_shared dynload_cuda SERIAL)
         target_compile_options(inference_anakin_test BEFORE PUBLIC ${ANAKIN_COMPILE_EXTRA_FLAGS})
     endif(WITH_TESTING)