diff --git a/wget.spec b/wget.spec
index 9a7e910..f852639 100644
--- a/wget.spec
+++ b/wget.spec
@@ -41,10 +41,6 @@ support for Proxy servers, and configurability.
 %patch5 -p1
 
 %build
-if pkg-config openssl ; then
-    CPPFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags openssl`; export CPPFLAGS
-    LDFLAGS=`pkg-config --libs openssl`; export LDFLAGS
-fi
 %configure \
     --with-ssl=openssl \
     --with-libpsl \
@@ -90,6 +86,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %changelog
 * Fri Nov 27 2015 Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> - 1.17-1
 - Updated to 1.17 + added some additional upstream fixes
+- Fixed hardening of wget executable (#1281829)
 
 * Fri Jun 19 2015 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.16.3-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild