diff --git a/fix_build.patch b/fix_build.patch
index 20547bb..ae49658 100644
--- a/fix_build.patch
+++ b/fix_build.patch
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ diff -ur zbar-0.10_2012_08_06/configure.ac zbar-0.10_2012_08_06_fix/configure.ac
 +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10 -Wall foreign subdir-objects std-options dist-bzip2])
  AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([include/config.h])
  AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(zbar/scanner.c)
-+AM_PROG_AR
++m4_ifdef([AM_PROG_AR], [AM_PROG_AR])
  LT_PREREQ([2.2])
  LT_INIT([dlopen win32-dll])
  LT_LANG([Windows Resource])
diff --git a/zbar.spec b/zbar.spec
index a7f8955..c091bd9 100644
--- a/zbar.spec
+++ b/zbar.spec
@@ -134,9 +134,7 @@ This package provides ZBar Python-Gtk bindings.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1220 || 0%{?suse_version} == 1120
 %patch1 -p1
-%endif
 # for the Mercurial-based archive we need to get proper autoconf files
 autoreconf -fi