diff --git a/SDL2.changes b/SDL2.changes
index 08de8df..e832b3d 100644
--- a/SDL2.changes
+++ b/SDL2.changes
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
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-Thu Dec 18 10:04:34 UTC 2014 - jengelh@inai.de
+Fri Dec 19 10:44:54 UTC 2014 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Drop old arts/esound soundserver support.
+  Remove --with-pic, we build with PIC by default anyway.
 
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 Thu Dec 18 09:46:46 UTC 2014 - jengelh@inai.de
diff --git a/SDL2.spec b/SDL2.spec
index cefc995..f0537b2 100644
--- a/SDL2.spec
+++ b/SDL2.spec
@@ -31,14 +31,11 @@ Source2:        http://libsdl.org/release/%name-%version.tar.gz.sig
 Source3:        %name.keyring
 Source4:        baselibs.conf
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
-BuildRequires:  alsa-devel >= 0.9.0
-BuildRequires:  arts-devel
 BuildRequires:  dos2unix
-BuildRequires:  esound-devel >= 0.2.8
-BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  nasm
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(alsa) >= 0.9.0
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(dbus-1)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gl)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(glib-2.0)
@@ -64,7 +61,7 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libpulse-simple) >= 0.9
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(udev)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(xext)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(xi)
-%ifarch ppc ppc64
+%ifarch ppc %power64
 BuildRequires:  libspe2-devel
 %endif
 
@@ -113,7 +110,6 @@ dos2unix COPYING.txt
 
 %build
 %configure \
-    --with-pic \
     --disable-rpath \
     --disable-alsa-shared \
     --disable-video-directfb
@@ -122,6 +118,9 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 %install
 make install DESTDIR="%buildroot"
 rm -f "%buildroot/%_libdir"/*.la
+# We do not want static libs, but using --disable-static leads to make aborting
+# halfway through.
+find "%buildroot/%_libdir" -type f -name "*.a" ! -name "libSDL2main.a" -delete
 
 %post   -n %lname -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun -n %lname -p /sbin/ldconfig
@@ -136,9 +135,7 @@ rm -f "%buildroot/%_libdir"/*.la
 %doc TODO.txt WhatsNew.txt
 %_bindir/sdl2-config
 %_libdir/libSDL2.so
-%_libdir/libSDL2.a
 %_libdir/libSDL2main.a
-%_libdir/libSDL2_test.a
 %_includedir/SDL2/
 %_datadir/aclocal/sdl2.m4
 %_libdir/pkgconfig/sdl2.pc