diff --git a/haproxy.changes b/haproxy.changes
index f854990..910a695 100644
--- a/haproxy.changes
+++ b/haproxy.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Aug 20 14:05:47 UTC 2019 - Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@suse.de>
+
+- enable verbose make output
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Aug 20 14:01:33 UTC 2019 - mrueckert@suse.de
 
diff --git a/haproxy.spec b/haproxy.spec
index 9e316e4..7770411 100644
--- a/haproxy.spec
+++ b/haproxy.spec
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ make \
     USE_RELRO_NOW=1 \
     LIB="%{_lib}" \
     PREFIX="%{_prefix}" \
-    DEBUG_CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
+    DEBUG_CFLAGS="%{optflags}" V=1
 %if %{with systemd}
 make -C contrib/systemd  PREFIX="%{_prefix}"
 %endif