diff --git a/attr.changes b/attr.changes
index 32265ab..4bf279a 100644
--- a/attr.changes
+++ b/attr.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Feb  5 09:45:34 UTC 2013 - schwab@suse.de
+
+- Remove unused autoconf and automake build requires
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Feb  2 21:08:57 UTC 2013 - schwab@suse.de
 
diff --git a/attr.spec b/attr.spec
index a001916..36f5699 100644
--- a/attr.spec
+++ b/attr.spec
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ Patch1:         config-guess-sub-update.patch
 Patch2:         attr-syscalls.patch
 Url:            http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/attr/
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
-BuildRequires:  autoconf
-BuildRequires:  automake
 Conflicts:      xfsdump < 2.0.0
 
 %description
@@ -94,8 +92,6 @@ statically linked programs which make use of extended attributes.
 %build
 export OPTIMIZER="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fPIC"
 export DEBUG=-DNDEBUG
-ln -sf /usr/share/automake-1.12/config.guess .
-ln -sf /usr/share/automake-1.12/config.sub .
 CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" \
 %configure \
 	--prefix=/ \