diff --git a/qemu.changes b/qemu.changes
index 652a4b3..8664a7d 100644
--- a/qemu.changes
+++ b/qemu.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May 29 15:52:47 UTC 2012 - agraf@suse.com
+
+- remove manual interp prefix, which made all linux-user binaries
+  point to an i386 LD_PREFIX path
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue May 29 15:34:55 UTC 2012 - agraf@suse.com
 
diff --git a/qemu.spec b/qemu.spec
index 1300896..41b7f08 100644
--- a/qemu.spec
+++ b/qemu.spec
@@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ run cross architectures builds
 mkdir -p dynamic
 # build qemu-system
 ./configure --prefix=%_prefix --sysconfdir=%_sysconfdir \
-	--interp-prefix=%_datadir/%name/qemu-i386 \
 	--audio-card-list="ac97 es1370 sb16 cs4231a adlib gus" \
 	--audio-drv-list="alsa sdl" --enable-mixemu --enable-vde \
 	--enable-curl \
@@ -158,7 +157,6 @@ mv *-softmmu/qemu-system-* qemu-io qemu-bridge-helper dynamic || true
 make clean
 # build userland emus
 ./configure --prefix=%_prefix --sysconfdir=%_sysconfdir \
-	--interp-prefix=%_datadir/%name/qemu-i386 \
 	--enable-linux-user \
 	--disable-system \
 	--static --disable-linux-aio \
diff --git a/qemu.spec.in b/qemu.spec.in
index 2cadaeb..fa89585 100644
--- a/qemu.spec.in
+++ b/qemu.spec.in
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ PATCH_EXEC
 mkdir -p dynamic
 # build qemu-system
 ./configure --prefix=%_prefix --sysconfdir=%_sysconfdir \
-	--interp-prefix=%_datadir/%name/qemu-i386 \
 	--audio-card-list="ac97 es1370 sb16 cs4231a adlib gus" \
 	--audio-drv-list="alsa sdl" --enable-mixemu --enable-vde \
 	--enable-curl \
@@ -122,7 +121,6 @@ mv *-softmmu/qemu-system-* qemu-io qemu-bridge-helper dynamic || true
 make clean
 # build userland emus
 ./configure --prefix=%_prefix --sysconfdir=%_sysconfdir \
-	--interp-prefix=%_datadir/%name/qemu-i386 \
 	--enable-linux-user \
 	--disable-system \
 	--static --disable-linux-aio \