diff --git a/python-lxml.changes b/python-lxml.changes
index d86c223..332c77c 100644
--- a/python-lxml.changes
+++ b/python-lxml.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jan 24 10:53:21 UTC 2024 - ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
+
+- Fix build error for Leap.
+  Use build and test as descriped on upstream.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jan 14 10:00:32 UTC 2024 - Adrian Schröter <adrian@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/python-lxml.spec b/python-lxml.spec
index adb1e98..b48f4bf 100644
--- a/python-lxml.spec
+++ b/python-lxml.spec
@@ -36,9 +36,6 @@ Patch2:         skip-test-under-libxml2-2.11.1.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module Cython >= 3.0.7}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module base}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module cssselect >= 0.9.1}
-# cyclic dependency
-#BuildRequires:  %{python_module html5lib}
-#BuildRequires:  %{python_module beautifulsoup4}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools >= 18.0.1}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 %if 0%{?suse_version} == 1500
@@ -98,7 +95,7 @@ rm src/lxml/lxml.etree_api.h
 
 %build
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
-%python_build --with-cython
+%python_build build_ext -i --with-cython
 
 %check
 # The tests fail on SLE 11 due to broken incremental parsing in libxml2
@@ -107,7 +104,7 @@ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x
 # cyclic dependency between html5lib and lxml
 rm -v src/lxml/html/tests/test_html5parser.py
-%{python_expand PYTHON3="$python" %make_build test}
+%python_exec test.py
 
 %install
 %python_install