diff --git a/jq.changes b/jq.changes
index 7c3e95a..bd09f25 100644
--- a/jq.changes
+++ b/jq.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jul 16 10:14:33 UTC 2016 - mpluskal@suse.com
+
+- Make building more verbose
+- Run tests
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Apr 25 11:48:27 UTC 2016 - idonmez@suse.com
 
diff --git a/jq.spec b/jq.spec
index b10861e..ebd23d6 100644
--- a/jq.spec
+++ b/jq.spec
@@ -25,10 +25,7 @@ Group:          Productivity/Text/Utilities
 Url:            http://stedolan.github.io/jq/
 Source:         https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-%{version}/jq-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch1:         CVE-2015-8863.patch
-BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  chrpath
-BuildRequires:  coreutils
-BuildRequires:  make
 BuildRequires:  oniguruma-devel
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
@@ -58,7 +55,9 @@ Development files (headers and libraries for jq).
 %patch1 -p2
 
 %build
-%configure --disable-static
+%configure \
+  --disable-static \
+  --disable-silent-rules 
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
@@ -73,15 +72,17 @@ rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libjq.la
 # we install the documentation in a separate location using the doc macro
 rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/%{name}
 
-%post -n libjq1 -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%check
+make check
 
+%post -n libjq1 -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun -n libjq1 -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING NEWS README README.md
+%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING NEWS README.md
 %{_bindir}/%{name}
-%{_mandir}/man1/%{name}.1.gz
+%{_mandir}/man1/%{name}.1%{ext_man}
 
 %files -n libjq1
 %defattr(-,root,root)