diff --git a/lynx.spec b/lynx.spec
index a65e6df..9c8d7af 100644
--- a/lynx.spec
+++ b/lynx.spec
@@ -64,12 +64,6 @@ perl -pi -e 's,^STARTFILE:.*,STARTFILE:file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/en-US/index.html
 %endif
 
 %build
-CFLAGS="-ggdb $RPM_OPT_FLAGS -DNCURSES -DNCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION" ; export CFLAGS
-CXXFLAGS="-ggdb $RPM_OPT_FLAGS -DNCURSES -DNCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION" ; export CXXFLAGS
-if pkg-config openssl ; then
-    CPPFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags openssl` ; export CPPFLAGS
-    LDFLAGS=`pkg-config --libs-only-L openssl` ; export LDFLAGS
-fi
 %configure --libdir=/etc            \
     --disable-font-switch           \
     --enable-addrlist-page          \
@@ -131,6 +125,7 @@ EOF
 * Wed Jan 28 2015 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.8.9-0.5.dev4
 - update to the latest upstream pre-release
 - drop a compiler wrapper no longer needed
+- do not override compiler/linker flags given by the build system
 
 * Mon Jan 05 2015 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.8.9-0.4.dev2
 - update to the latest upstream pre-release