diff --git a/gettext.spec b/gettext.spec
index 2186edc..761e2c7 100644
--- a/gettext.spec
+++ b/gettext.spec
@@ -108,13 +108,13 @@ for i in gettext-runtime/man/*.html; do
   rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/gettext/`basename $i`
 done
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/gettext/javadoc*
-rmdir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/gettext
 
 rm -rf htmldoc examples
 mkdir htmldoc
 mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/gettext/examples examples
 mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/gettext/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/doc/libasprintf/* htmldoc
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/libasprintf
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/gettext
 
 
 # remove unpackaged files from the buildroot