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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-oid sha256:b32d6ff72a73cf79797f7f2d039e95e9c6f92f0c1450215410840ab62aea9763
-size 937282
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diff --git a/libgpg-error-1.38.tar.bz2 b/libgpg-error-1.38.tar.bz2
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+++ b/libgpg-error-1.38.tar.bz2
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:d8988275aa69d7149f931c10442e9e34c0242674249e171592b430ff7b3afd02
+size 957637
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diff --git a/libgpg-error.changes b/libgpg-error.changes
index 81485ff..3210a23 100644
--- a/libgpg-error.changes
+++ b/libgpg-error.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun May 31 10:09:34 UTC 2020 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
+
+- Update to 1.38:
+  * New option parser features to implement system wide
+    configuration files
+  * New functions to build file names
+  * New function to help reallocating arrays
+  * Protect gpgrt_inc_errorcount against counter overflow
+- drop needless autotools build dependencies that were added for
+  gawk5.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Feb 17 16:34:09 UTC 2020 - Pedro Monreal Gonzalez <pmonrealgonzalez@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libgpg-error.spec b/libgpg-error.spec
index 0d287c0..7531dac 100644
--- a/libgpg-error.spec
+++ b/libgpg-error.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 
 Name:           libgpg-error
-Version:        1.37
+Version:        1.38
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Library That Defines Common Error Values for All GnuPG Components
 License:        GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ Source1:        ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/%{name}-%{version}.tar.b
 # http://www.gnupg.org/signature_key.en.html
 Source2:        %{name}.keyring
 Source3:        baselibs.conf
-BuildRequires:  autoconf
-BuildRequires:  automake
-BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 
 %description
@@ -63,14 +60,13 @@ Requires(preun): info
 Files needed for software development using libgpg-error.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n libgpg-error-%{version}
+%setup -q
 
 %build
-autoreconf -fvi
 %configure \
 	--disable-static \
 	--with-pic
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
+%make_build
 
 %install
 %make_install
@@ -81,9 +77,7 @@ rm -r %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/common-lisp
 %find_lang %{name}
 
 %check
-make check %{?_smp_mflags}
-%{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/gpg-error-config --libs | grep -q -v "\-pthread"
-%{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/gpg-error-config --mt --libs | grep -q "\-pthread"
+%make_build check
 
 %post -n libgpg-error0 -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %post devel