diff --git a/pgbackrest.changes b/pgbackrest.changes
index ac5e9d0..56ac983 100644
--- a/pgbackrest.changes
+++ b/pgbackrest.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon May 28 08:21:30 UTC 2018 - bruno@ioda-net.ch
+
+- Urgent fix : add perl as BuildRequires and Requires to force
+  presence of libperl.so : Otherwise pgbackrest binary can't find
+  it
+- Spec : use %make_build macros 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 23 09:55:27 UTC 2018 - bruno@ioda-net.ch
 
diff --git a/pgbackrest.spec b/pgbackrest.spec
index dc6dd88..1882aa5 100644
--- a/pgbackrest.spec
+++ b/pgbackrest.spec
@@ -27,9 +27,11 @@ URL:            http://www.pgbackrest.org/
 Source:         https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/archive/release/%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        pgbackrest-conf.patch
 BuildRequires:  openssl-devel
+BuildRequires:  perl
 BuildRequires:  perl-libxml-perl
 BuildRequires:  perl(DBD::Pg)
 BuildRequires:  perl(IO::Socket::SSL)
+Requires:       perl
 Requires:       perl-libxml-perl
 Requires:       perl(DBD::Pg)
 Requires:       perl(IO::Socket::SSL)
@@ -55,12 +57,12 @@ are required to perform a backup which increases security.
 %build
 #TODO upstream doesn't care about RPM_OPT_FLAGS
 pushd src
-make V=1 %{?_smp_mflags}
+%make_build
 popd
 
 pushd libc
 perl Makefile.PL
-make V=1 %{?_smp_mflags}
+%make_build
 popd
 
 %install