diff --git a/libmemcached.changes b/libmemcached.changes
index 618e18e..06791f5 100644
--- a/libmemcached.changes
+++ b/libmemcached.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Feb 23 16:50:49 UTC 2015 - mrueckert@suse.de
+
+- enable verbose build
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Dec 16 17:31:06 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/libmemcached.spec b/libmemcached.spec
index b24bbfe..acc339a 100644
--- a/libmemcached.spec
+++ b/libmemcached.spec
@@ -102,10 +102,10 @@ autoreconf -fiv
   --disable-static \
   --enable-libmemcachedprotocol \
   --with-memcached=%{_sbindir}/memcached
-make CFLAGS="-std=c99 %optflags" CXXFLAGS="%optflags" %{?_smp_mflags}
+make V=1 CFLAGS="-std=c99 %optflags" CXXFLAGS="%optflags" %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
-%makeinstall CFLAGS="-std=c99 %optflags" CXXFLAGS="%optflags"
+%makeinstall V=1 CFLAGS="-std=c99 %optflags" CXXFLAGS="%optflags"
 %__rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
 %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1020
 # create symlinks for man pages