diff --git a/mingw-binutils.spec b/mingw-binutils.spec
index e26bd5d..083a965 100644
--- a/mingw-binutils.spec
+++ b/mingw-binutils.spec
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Patch16: binutils-testsuite-fixes.patch
 Patch17: binutils-gold-i386-gnu-property-notes.patch
 
 
-BuildRequires: make
+BuildRequires:  make
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires:  flex
 BuildRequires:  bison
@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ BuildRequires:  dejagnu
 BuildRequires:  sharutils
 %endif
 Provides:       bundled(libiberty)
-BuildRequires:	autoconf, automake
 
 
 %description
@@ -178,16 +177,6 @@ sed -i -e 's/%''{release}/%{release}/g' bfd/Makefile{.am,.in}
 
 
 %build
-# Dependencies are not set up to rebuild the configure files
-# in the subdirectories.  So we just rebuild the ones we care
-# about
-pushd libiberty
-autoconf
-popd
-pushd intl
-autoconf
-popd
-
 # We call configure directly rather than via macros, thus if
 # we are using LTO, we have to manually fix the broken configure
 # scripts