diff --git a/m4.changes b/m4.changes
index 3fccfa8..8f3973d 100644
--- a/m4.changes
+++ b/m4.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct 19 06:26:27 UTC 2017 - jayvdb@gmail.com
+
+- Explicitly remove %{_infodir}/dir before creating package to
+  allow builds on RHEL and derived Linux distributions
+- Enable configure option --disable-dependency-tracking to
+  allow build on Mageia
+- Add xz as BuildRequires to unpack source on SLE 11
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Feb  9 12:37:26 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/m4.spec b/m4.spec
index 07c3b21..de472ea 100644
--- a/m4.spec
+++ b/m4.spec
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Url:            https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
 Source0:        https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/m4/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source1:        https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/m4/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz.sig
 Source2:        https://savannah.gnu.org/project/memberlist-gpgkeys.php?group=m4&download=1#/%{name}.keyring
+BuildRequires:  xz
 Requires(post): %{install_info_prereq}
 Requires(preun): %{install_info_prereq}
 Provides:       base:%{_bindir}/m4
@@ -39,6 +40,9 @@ GNU m4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor.
 %build
 %configure \
   --without-included-regex \
+%if 0%{?mageia}
+	--disable-dependency-tracking \
+%endif
 	gl_cv_func_isnanl_works=yes \
 	gl_cv_func_printf_directive_n=yes \
 	gl_cv_func_printf_infinite_long_double=yes
@@ -49,6 +53,8 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags} check
 
 %install
 %make_install
+# info's dir file is not auto ignored on some systems
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_infodir}/dir
 
 %post
 %install_info --info-dir=%{_infodir} %{_infodir}/%{name}.info%{ext_info}