diff --git a/mdadm.changes b/mdadm.changes
index 7ce24f9..f464dd6 100644
--- a/mdadm.changes
+++ b/mdadm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Aug 10 02:54:57 UTC 2011 - crrodriguez@opensuse.org
+
+- Do not use -fno-strict-aliasing when not needed 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jun 14 06:07:19 UTC 2011 - nfbrown@novell.com
 
diff --git a/mdadm.spec b/mdadm.spec
index 51ae6d3..940e3ff 100644
--- a/mdadm.spec
+++ b/mdadm.spec
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Authors:
 
 %build
 %{suse_update_config -f}
-make %{?_smp_mflags} CXFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-error"
+make %{?_smp_mflags} CXFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -Wno-error"
 cd Software-RAID.HOWTO
 sgml2html Software-RAID.HOWTO.sgml
 sgml2txt Software-RAID.HOWTO.sgml