diff --git a/libfdata.changes b/libfdata.changes
index 329e109..1338dfb 100644
--- a/libfdata.changes
+++ b/libfdata.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Nov 26 16:43:24 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Delete system-libs.patch (not needed - system libs are
+  autodetected)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep  1 08:16:06 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libfdata.spec b/libfdata.spec
index 1288fd4..9cab985 100644
--- a/libfdata.spec
+++ b/libfdata.spec
@@ -27,18 +27,16 @@ URL:            https://github.com/libyal/libfdata
 Source:         https://github.com/libyal/libfdata/releases/download/%version/libfdata-alpha-%version.tar.gz
 Source2:        https://github.com/libyal/libfdata/releases/download/%version/libfdata-alpha-%version.tar.gz.asc
 Source3:        %name.keyring
-Patch1:         system-libs.patch
 # The source code assumes 64bit integers for one of the function returns.  Fix that.
 Patch2:         libfdata-20211023-1TB-fix.patch
 BuildRequires:  c_compiler
-BuildRequires:  gettext-tools >= 0.18.1
-BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libcdata) >= 20200509
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libcerror) >= 20220101
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libcnotify) >= 20220108
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libcthreads) >= 20220102
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libfcache) >= 20220110
+# Various notes: https://en.opensuse.org/libyal
 
 %description
 Library to provide generic file data functions for the libyal family of libraries.
@@ -65,10 +63,9 @@ applications that want to make use of libfdata.
 %autosetup -p1
 
 %build
-autoreconf -fi
-# see libcdata for version-sc
 echo "V_%version { global: *; };" >v.sym
 %configure --disable-static LDFLAGS="-Wl,--version-script=$PWD/v.sym"
+grep '  local' config.log && exit 1
 %make_build
 
 %install
diff --git a/system-libs.patch b/system-libs.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e39309..0000000
--- a/system-libs.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
-Date: 2021-05-12 17:36:02.536572543 +0200
-
-Some dirs are not present in snapshots directly generated from git
-(nor are they marked as a submodule). Patch it out, since we have
-them as system libs.
----
- Makefile.am  |   10 ----------
- configure.ac |    5 -----
- 2 files changed, 15 deletions(-)
-
-Index: libfdata/Makefile.am
-===================================================================
---- libfdata.orig/Makefile.am
-+++ libfdata/Makefile.am
-@@ -3,11 +3,6 @@ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
- SUBDIRS = \
- 	include \
- 	common \
--	libcerror \
--	libcthreads \
--	libcdata \
--	libcnotify \
--	libfcache \
- 	libfdata \
- 	po \
- 	manuals \
-@@ -57,11 +52,6 @@ lib: library
- 
- library:
- 	(cd $(srcdir)/common && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS))
--	(cd $(srcdir)/libcerror && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS))
--	(cd $(srcdir)/libcthreads && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS))
--	(cd $(srcdir)/libcdata && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS))
--	(cd $(srcdir)/libcnotify && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS))
--	(cd $(srcdir)/libfcache && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS))
- 	(cd $(srcdir)/libfdata && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS))
- 	(cd $(srcdir)/po && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS))
- 
-Index: libfdata/configure.ac
-===================================================================
---- libfdata.orig/configure.ac
-+++ libfdata/configure.ac
-@@ -109,11 +109,6 @@ dnl Generate Makefiles
- AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
- AC_CONFIG_FILES([include/Makefile])
- AC_CONFIG_FILES([common/Makefile])
--AC_CONFIG_FILES([libcerror/Makefile])
--AC_CONFIG_FILES([libcthreads/Makefile])
--AC_CONFIG_FILES([libcdata/Makefile])
--AC_CONFIG_FILES([libcnotify/Makefile])
--AC_CONFIG_FILES([libfcache/Makefile])
- AC_CONFIG_FILES([libfdata/Makefile])
- AC_CONFIG_FILES([po/Makefile.in])
- AC_CONFIG_FILES([po/Makevars])