diff --git a/libarchive.changes b/libarchive.changes
index 2705fa1..7f9f792 100644
--- a/libarchive.changes
+++ b/libarchive.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Mar 22 19:51:10 UTC 2015 - astieger@suse.com
+
+- RHEL/CentOS build fix, skipping autoreconf
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Mar 15 20:11:00 UTC 2015 - astieger@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libarchive.spec b/libarchive.spec
index 49174e1..9aafb23 100644
--- a/libarchive.spec
+++ b/libarchive.spec
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 %bcond_without	static_libs
 %bcond_with	openssl
 %bcond_with	ext2fs
+%define skip_autoreconf 1
 %endif
 %else
 %bcond_with	static_libs
@@ -168,12 +169,16 @@ static library for libarchive
 %if %{with openssl}
 %patch0
 %endif
+%if !0%{?skip_autoreconf}
 %patch1 -p1
+%endif
 %patch2 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
 
 %build
+%if !0%{?skip_autoreconf}
 autoreconf -fiv
+%endif
 %global optflags    %{optflags} -D_REENTRANT -pipe
 %configure \
 	--disable-silent-rules \