diff --git a/pzstd-global-gtest.patch b/pzstd-global-gtest.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a2df3d..0000000
--- a/pzstd-global-gtest.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-diff -rupN zstd-1.3.4.orig/contrib/pzstd/Makefile zstd-1.3.4/contrib/pzstd/Makefile
---- zstd-1.3.4.orig/contrib/pzstd/Makefile	2018-03-27 00:19:34.000000000 +0200
-+++ zstd-1.3.4/contrib/pzstd/Makefile	2018-06-14 13:46:16.485820353 +0200
-@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ LDFLAGS  ?=
- 
- # Include flags
- PZSTD_INC  = -I$(ZSTDDIR) -I$(ZSTDDIR)/common -I$(PROGDIR) -I.
--GTEST_INC  = -isystem googletest/googletest/include
-+GTEST_INC  =
- 
- PZSTD_CPPFLAGS  = $(PZSTD_INC)
- PZSTD_CCXXFLAGS =
-@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ ALL_LDFLAGS     = $(EXTRA_FLAGS) $(LDFLA
- 
- 
- # gtest libraries need to go before "-lpthread" because they depend on it.
--GTEST_LIB  = -L googletest/build/googlemock/gtest
-+GTEST_LIB  =
- LIBS       =
- 
- # Compilation commands
-@@ -212,10 +212,7 @@ GTEST_CMAKEFLAGS =
- .PHONY: googletest
- googletest: PZSTD_CCXXFLAGS += -fPIC
- googletest:
--	@$(RM) -rf googletest
--	@git clone https://github.com/google/googletest
--	@mkdir -p googletest/build
--	@cd googletest/build && cmake $(GTEST_CMAKEFLAGS) -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="$(ALL_CXXFLAGS)" .. && $(MAKE)
-+	true
- 
- .PHONY: googletest32
- googletest32: PZSTD_CCXXFLAGS  += -m32
diff --git a/zstd.changes b/zstd.changes
index f685bae..847105c 100644
--- a/zstd.changes
+++ b/zstd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jun 14 11:52:32 UTC 2019 - Ismail Dönmez <idonmez@suse.com>
+
+- Remove googletest-devel BuildRequires and pzstd-global-gtest.patch
+  because we want zstd in ring0 (due to rpm's zstd payload support)
+  Since googletest is only used in build time (it's for testing after
+  all), this should be fine.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jun  2 10:11:25 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/zstd.spec b/zstd.spec
index 6afbf6e..56428ee 100644
--- a/zstd.spec
+++ b/zstd.spec
@@ -27,11 +27,9 @@ Group:          Productivity/Archiving/Compression
 URL:            https://github.com/facebook/zstd
 Source0:        https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/download/v%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch1:         pzstd.1.patch
-Patch2:         pzstd-global-gtest.patch
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 # C++ is needed for pzstd only
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
-BuildRequires:  googletest-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 
 %description
@@ -85,7 +83,6 @@ Needed for compiling programs that link with the library.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch1 -p1
-%patch2 -p1
 
 %build
 %global _lto_cflags %{_lto_cflags} -ffat-lto-objects