diff --git a/libxml2.spec b/libxml2.spec
index ca4826f..c0ebfbd 100644
--- a/libxml2.spec
+++ b/libxml2.spec
@@ -113,13 +113,13 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 %make_install -C py3
 
 # multiarch crazyness on timestamp differences or Makefile/binaries for examples
-touch -m --reference=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_includedir}/libxml2/libxml/parser.h $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_bindir}/xml2-config
+touch -m --reference=%{buildroot}%{_includedir}/libxml2/libxml/parser.h %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/xml2-config
 
-rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.la
-rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/*.a
-rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/*.la
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/libxml2-%{version}/*
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/libxml2-python-%{version}/*
+rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
+rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/*.a
+rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/*.la
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/libxml2-%{version}/*
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/libxml2-python-%{version}/*
 #(cd doc/examples ; make clean ; rm -rf .deps Makefile)
 gzip -9 -c doc/libxml2-api.xml > doc/libxml2-api.xml.gz