diff --git a/gnome-desktop.changes b/gnome-desktop.changes
index c414bd7..1f9ecf7 100644
--- a/gnome-desktop.changes
+++ b/gnome-desktop.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Sep 21 07:26:41 UTC 2018 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Strip pointless --with-pic, no static libs are built.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Sep  8 10:26:35 UTC 2018 - antoine.belvire@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/gnome-desktop.spec b/gnome-desktop.spec
index a736e12..c4808d4 100644
--- a/gnome-desktop.spec
+++ b/gnome-desktop.spec
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # license that conforms to the Open Source Definition (Version 1.9)
 # published by the Open Source Initiative.
 
-# Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
+# Please submit bugfixes or comments via https://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
 
@@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ translation-update-upstream
 
 %build
 %configure \
-        --with-pic \
         --disable-static \
 %if 0%{?BUILD_FROM_VCS}
         --enable-gtk-doc \