diff --git a/regexp.changes b/regexp.changes
index 08644d5..ce8a588 100644
--- a/regexp.changes
+++ b/regexp.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct  3 10:48:19 UTC 2017 - fstrba@suse.com
+
+- Don't depend on java-gcj-compat, since it is bound to go
+- Specify java source and target level 1.6
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri May 19 11:22:28 UTC 2017 - dziolkowski@suse.com
 
diff --git a/regexp.spec b/regexp.spec
index 6098013..4504606 100644
--- a/regexp.spec
+++ b/regexp.spec
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Source0:        http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/regexp/jakarta-regexp-%{versi
 Source1:        regexp-%{version}.pom
 BuildRequires:  ant
 BuildRequires:  ant >= 1.6
-BuildRequires:  java-1_5_0-gcj-compat-devel
+BuildRequires:  java-devel
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-local
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-tools
 BuildRequires:  xml-commons-apis-bootstrap
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ find . -type f -name "*.jar" | xargs -t rm
 export OPT_JAR_LIST=:
 export CLASSPATH=
 mkdir lib
-ant -Djakarta-site2.dir=. jar
+ant -Djakarta-site2.dir=. -Dant.build.javac.source=1.6 -Dant.build.javac.target=1.6  jar
 
 %install
 # jars