diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index efd124a..ed303fa 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -12,22 +12,14 @@ PLUGIN = dvbapi
 ### The version number of this plugin (taken from the main source file):
 
 VERSION = $(shell grep 'static const char \*VERSION *=' DVBAPI.h | awk '{ print $$6 }' | sed -e 's/[";]//g')
-GITTAG  = $(shell git describe --always 2>/dev/null)
 
 ### The directory environment:
 
-# Use package data if installed...otherwise assume we're under the VDR source directory:
-PKGCFG  = $(if $(VDRDIR),$(shell pkg-config --variable=$(1) $(VDRDIR)/vdr.pc),$(shell PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:../../.." pkg-config --variable=$(1) vdr))
-LIBDIR  = $(call PKGCFG,libdir)
-LOCDIR  = $(call PKGCFG,locdir)
-PLGCFG  = $(call PKGCFG,plgcfg)
-#
 TMPDIR ?= /tmp
 
 ### The compiler options:
 
-export CFLAGS   = $(call PKGCFG,cflags)
-export CXXFLAGS = $(call PKGCFG,cxxflags)
+include $(VDRDIR)/Make.global
 
 ### Allow user defined options to overwrite defaults:
 
@@ -35,7 +27,7 @@ export CXXFLAGS = $(call PKGCFG,cxxflags)
 
 ### The version number of VDR's plugin API:
 
-APIVERSION = $(call PKGCFG,apiversion)
+APIVERSION = $(shell sed -ne '/define APIVERSION/s/^.*"\(.*\)".*$$/\1/p' $(VDRDIR)/config.h)
 
 ### The name of the distribution archive:
 
@@ -48,7 +40,7 @@ SOFILE = libvdr-$(PLUGIN).so
 
 ### Includes and Defines (add further entries here):
 
-INCLUDES +=
+INCLUDES += -I$(VDRDIR)/include
 
 DEFINES += -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"$(PLUGIN)"'
 
@@ -122,6 +114,7 @@ install-i18n: $(I18Nmsgs)
 
 $(SOFILE): $(OBJS) $(FFDECSA)
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared $(OBJS) $(DECSALIB) -o $@
+	@cp --remove-destination $@ $(LIBDIR)/$@.$(APIVERSION)
 
 ifndef LIBDVBCSA
 $(FFDECSA): $(FFDECSADIR)/*.c $(FFDECSADIR)/*.h
