diff --git a/dialog.spec b/dialog.spec
index 8eac275..bb3e37f 100644
--- a/dialog.spec
+++ b/dialog.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ License: LGPLv2
 Group: Applications/System
 URL: http://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html
 Source: ftp://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog-%{version}-%{dialogsubversion}.tgz
-BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires: ncurses-devel gettext findutils libtool
 Patch1: dialog-incdir.patch
 Patch2: dialog-multilib.patch
@@ -48,8 +47,6 @@ dialog library.
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
 # prepare packaged samples
 rm -rf _samples
 mkdir _samples
@@ -64,22 +61,17 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libdialog.{,l}a
 
 %find_lang %{name}
 
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
 %post -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %files -f %{name}.lang
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %doc COPYING dialog.lsm README _samples/samples
 %{_bindir}/dialog
 %{_libdir}/libdialog.so.*
 %{_mandir}/man1/dialog.*
 
 %files devel
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %{_bindir}/dialog-config
 %{_includedir}/dialog
 %{_libdir}/libdialog.so