diff --git a/herbstluftwm.changes b/herbstluftwm.changes
index 4c20ea3..98c0e0e 100644
--- a/herbstluftwm.changes
+++ b/herbstluftwm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Dec  5 21:35:10 UTC 2017 - crrodriguez@opensuse.org
+
+- Respect %optflags 
+- BuildRequire only the needed x libs, not xorg-x11-devel
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Sep  5 03:45:45 UTC 2017 - aavindraa@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/herbstluftwm.spec b/herbstluftwm.spec
index c92d64a..1972116 100644
--- a/herbstluftwm.spec
+++ b/herbstluftwm.spec
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ BuildRequires:  gcc-c++ >= 4.9
 BuildRequires:  glib2-devel
 BuildRequires:  libxslt-devel
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-utils
-BuildRequires:  xorg-x11-devel
-Requires:       xorg-x11-libX11
-# BuildArch:      noarch
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(x11)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(xext)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(xinerama)
 
 %description
 herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 
-
 %build
-make COLOR=0 %{?_smp_mflags}
-
+export CXXFLAGS="%optflags"
+export CFLAGS="%optflags"
+make VERBOSE= COLOR=0 %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
 make install \
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ make install \
 
 install -D -m0644  %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/xsessions/%{name}.desktop
 
-
 %files
 %dir %{_datadir}/zsh/functions
 %dir %{_datadir}/zsh/functions/Completion