diff --git a/bash.changes b/bash.changes
index 2a400cf7..e810981b 100644
--- a/bash.changes
+++ b/bash.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu May 25 17:33:36 UTC 2017 - bwiedemann@suse.com
+
+- Make build reproducible in spite of profile based optimizations (boo#1040589)
+
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 Wed May 24 12:42:20 UTC 2017 - bwiedemann@suse.com
 
diff --git a/bash.spec b/bash.spec
index 9fd89daf..4f34b5a8 100644
--- a/bash.spec
+++ b/bash.spec
@@ -550,6 +550,7 @@ popd
 	screen -D -m make TESTSCRIPT=%{SOURCE4} check
   kill -TERM $pid
 %if 0%{?do_profiling}
+  rm -f jobs.gcda
   profilecflags=CFLAGS="$CFLAGS %cflags_profile_feedback -fprofile-correction"
   clean=clean
 %endif