diff --git a/yelp.spec b/yelp.spec
index 60f775f..0b7988d 100644
--- a/yelp.spec
+++ b/yelp.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Name:          yelp
 Epoch:         2
 Version:       40~beta
-Release:       1%{?dist}
+Release:       2%{?dist}
 Summary:       Help browser for the GNOME desktop
 
 License:       LGPLv2+ and ASL 2.0 and GPLv2+
@@ -56,11 +56,6 @@ the libraries in the yelp-libs package.
 
 %build
 %configure --disable-static
-
-# drop unneeded direct library deps with --as-needed
-# libtool doesn't make this easy, so we do it the hard way
-sed -i -e 's/ -shared / -Wl,-O1,--as-needed\0 /g' -e 's/    if test "$export_dynamic" = yes && test -n "$export_dynamic_flag_spec"; then/      func_append compile_command " -Wl,-O1,--as-needed"\n      func_append finalize_command " -Wl,-O1,--as-needed"\n\0/' libtool
-
 %make_build
 
 %install
@@ -100,6 +95,9 @@ desktop-file-validate $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/yelp.desktop
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Feb 28 2021 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 2:40~beta-2
+- Drop libtool as-needed hack as as-needed is in default LDFLAGS now
+
 * Thu Feb 18 2021 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 2:40~beta-1
 - Update to 40.beta