diff --git a/autoconf.spec b/autoconf.spec
index c23b22a..20d16b2 100644
--- a/autoconf.spec
+++ b/autoconf.spec
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
-Summary:	A GNU tool for automatically configuring source code.
-Name:		autoconf
-Version:	2.61
-Release:	3
-License:	GPL
-Group:		Development/Tools
-Source:		http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-%{version}.tar.bz2
-URL:		http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
-BuildRequires:	sed, m4, emacs
-Prereq(post,preun):	/sbin/install-info
-Requires:	gawk, m4, mktemp, perl, textutils, imake
-BuildArchitectures:	noarch
-BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
+Summary:    A GNU tool for automatically configuring source code
+Name:       autoconf
+Version:    2.61
+Release:    4%{?dist}
+License:    GPL
+Group:      Development/Tools
+Source:     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-%{version}.tar.bz2
+URL:        http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
+BuildRequires:      sed, m4, emacs, gawk
+Requires(post):     /sbin/install-info
+Requires(preun):    /sbin/install-info
+Requires:           gawk, m4, mktemp, imake
+BuildArch: noarch
+BuildRoot:  %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
 %description
 GNU's Autoconf is a tool for configuring source code and Makefiles.
@@ -29,23 +30,24 @@ Autoconf is only required for the generation of the scripts, not
 their use.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n autoconf-%{version}
+%setup -q
 
 %build
+# move config files out of they way as they require help2man from extras:
 cp -p build-aux/config{.,-}guess
 cp -p build-aux/config{.,-}sub
 %configure
 # ... and restore them:
 mv build-aux/config{-,.}guess
 mv build-aux/config{-,.}sub
-make
+make #  %{?_smp_mflags}  Makefile not smp save
 
 #check
 #make check VERBOSE=yes
 
 %install
 rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
-%makeinstall
+make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_infodir}/dir
 
@@ -61,17 +63,25 @@ if [ "$1" = 0 ]; then
 fi
 
 %files
-%defattr(-,root,root)
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %{_bindir}/*
 %{_infodir}/autoconf.info*
 # don't include standards.info, because it comes from binutils...
 %exclude %{_infodir}/standards*
-%{_datadir}/autoconf
-%{_datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
+%{_datadir}/autoconf/
+%{_datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/
 %{_mandir}/man1/*
 %doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS README THANKS TODO
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Feb 15 2007 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.com> 2.61-4
+- add disttag
+- replace  tabs with spaces
+- fix buildroot
+- use Requires(post), Requires(preun)
+- use make install DESTDIR=....
+- drop perl requirement as it gets pulled it automatically 
+
 * Thu Jan 18 2007 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.com> 2.61-3
 - don't abort (un)install scriptlets when _excludedocs is set (Ville Skyttä)