diff --git a/mingw64-winpthreads.spec b/mingw64-winpthreads.spec
index eb424df..0b99b06 100644
--- a/mingw64-winpthreads.spec
+++ b/mingw64-winpthreads.spec
@@ -73,10 +73,11 @@ touch empty.c
 popd
 
 # No ssp support in gcc-cross-bootstrap
+# Hence we repeat the LDFLAGS without -fstack-protector
 %{_mingw64_configure} \
 	--enable-static \
 	--enable-shared \
-    LDFLAGS="-fno-stack-protector"
+    LDFLAGS="--Wl,--exclude-libs=libintl.a -Wl,--exclude-libs=libiconv.a -Wl,--no-keep-memory"
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install