diff --git a/audit-secondary.spec b/audit-secondary.spec
index ede4aac..1e8f52b 100644
--- a/audit-secondary.spec
+++ b/audit-secondary.spec
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Summary:        Python Bindings for libaudit
 License:        GPL v2 or later
 Group:          System/Monitoring
 Version:        1.7.13
-Release:        1
+Release:        2
 Url:            http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/
 Source0:        audit-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Patch0:         audit-no_sca.patch
diff --git a/audit.changes b/audit.changes
index f0f3695..33c6dc3 100644
--- a/audit.changes
+++ b/audit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jun 19 10:35:46 CEST 2009 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- disable as-needed for this package as it fails to build with it
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon May 11 17:20:28 CEST 2009 - tonyj@suse.de
 
diff --git a/audit.spec b/audit.spec
index ce64ccb..a2ae592 100644
--- a/audit.spec
+++ b/audit.spec
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Name:           audit
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++ tcpd-devel
 Summary:        User Space Tools for 2.6 Kernel Auditing
 Version:        1.7.13
-Release:        1
+Release:        2
 License:        GPL v2 or later
 Group:          System/Monitoring
 Url:            http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ Authors:
 %patch3 -p1
 
 %build
+# This package failed when testing with -Wl,-as-needed being default.  
+# So we disable it here, if you want to retest, just delete this comment and the line below.  
+export SUSE_ASNEEDED=0  
 autoreconf -fi
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fno-strict-aliasing"
 export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
@@ -219,6 +222,8 @@ fi
 %attr(755,root,root) /usr/bin/ausyscall
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jun 19 2009 coolo@novell.com
+- disable as-needed for this package as it fails to build with it
 * Mon May 11 2009 tonyj@suse.de
 - Update from 1.7.7 to 1.7.13.
 - Redhat changelog for 1.7.8 - 1.7.13 follows: