diff --git a/Botan.changes b/Botan.changes
index 7bef5d5..2fbedb8 100644
--- a/Botan.changes
+++ b/Botan.changes
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-Sun Jan 10 04:27:38 CET 2010 - jengelh@medozas.de
-
-- run configure with --cpu=%_target to have correct bitness
-  selected for SPARC
-
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Dec 21 17:34:49 UTC 2009 - coolo@novell.com
 
diff --git a/Botan.spec b/Botan.spec
index 81e2501..7f75adf 100644
--- a/Botan.spec
+++ b/Botan.spec
@@ -103,8 +103,7 @@ export RPM_OPT_FLAGS
 				--with-zlib \
 				--with-gnump \
 				--with-openssl \
-				--with-tr1-implementation=system  \
-				--cpu=%_target_cpu
+				--with-tr1-implementation=system 
 make %{?_smp_mflags} WARN_FLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
 
 %install