diff --git a/emacs-auctex.changes b/emacs-auctex.changes
index e4b2a8c..228e188 100644
--- a/emacs-auctex.changes
+++ b/emacs-auctex.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar 11 12:04:09 CET 2008 - werner@suse.de
+
+- Avoid overlong file lists use find and xargs instead
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar 10 17:46:37 CET 2008 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/emacs-auctex.spec b/emacs-auctex.spec
index 3712a37..a120c8c 100644
--- a/emacs-auctex.spec
+++ b/emacs-auctex.spec
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Provides:       auc-tex auctex ge_auc
 Requires:       emacs lacheck texlive-latex
 AutoReqProv:    on
 Version:        11.85
-Release:        1
+Release:        2
 Summary:        AUC TeX: An Emacs Extension
 Source:         ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/auctex-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Url:            http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Authors:
 	--with-texmf-dir=%{_datadir}/texmf	\
 	--with-doc-dir=/tmp/auctex/doc/preview	\
 	--with-tex-dir=/tmp/auctex/latex/preview
-    rm -rf `find . -name '*.elc'`
+    find , -name '*.elc' | xargs -r rm -f
     make
     make -C doc clean
     make -C doc
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Authors:
 	    -l %{buildroot}%{_sitedir}/tex-site.el -f TeX-auto-generate-global
     popd
     touch %{buildroot}%{_aucdir}/auto/.nosearch
-    rm -f %{buildroot}%{_aucdir}/auto/*.elc
+    find %{buildroot}%{_aucdir}/auto/ -name '*.elc' | xargs -r rm -f
     cat <<-EOF > %{buildroot}%{_sitedir}/suse-start-auctex.el
 	;;; suse-start-auctex.el
 	;;
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ done
 %config %{_sitedir}/tex-site.el
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 11 2008 werner@suse.de
+- Avoid overlong file lists use find and xargs instead
 * Mon Mar 10 2008 werner@suse.de
 - Make it work with texlive and texlive-latex
 - Update to auctec 11.85