diff --git a/xmlsec1.changes b/xmlsec1.changes
index 09989ca..3dbdce7 100644
--- a/xmlsec1.changes
+++ b/xmlsec1.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep  8 07:25:33 UTC 2022 - Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
+
+- Add export CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS="-Wno-error=deprecated-declarations"
+  inbefore configure. We pass --enable-werror to configure, and
+  that leads to warnings about deprecations failing build. As
+  deprecations is mainly a consern for upstream, stop failing on
+  those.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon May 23 09:49:35 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/xmlsec1.spec b/xmlsec1.spec
index 6656de1..68ba576 100644
--- a/xmlsec1.spec
+++ b/xmlsec1.spec
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ Libraries, includes, etc. for developing XML Security applications with NSS.
 %autosetup -p1
 
 %build
+# Allow for deprecations
+export CFLAGS="-Wno-error=deprecated-declarations"
+export CXXFLAGS="-Wno-error=deprecated-declarations"
 %configure \
     --disable-static \
     --disable-silent-rules \