diff --git a/linuxdoc-tools.spec b/linuxdoc-tools.spec
index 9d0737a..96b4b93 100644
--- a/linuxdoc-tools.spec
+++ b/linuxdoc-tools.spec
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ documentation.
 
 %build
 #need to get config.{sub,guess} in, something is broken in the build
-autoreconf
+autoreconf -i
 %configure --with-installed-nsgmls --with-installed-iso-entities --disable-docs
 # Packaging brain-damage
 pushd entity-map