diff --git a/bash.changes b/bash.changes
index ec0cb9e..5782075 100644
--- a/bash.changes
+++ b/bash.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Mar 16 17:37:08 UTC 2018 - werner@suse.de
+
+- Make sure that correct readline-devel version is used (current 7.0) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Mar 16 06:22:31 UTC 2018 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/bash.spec b/bash.spec
index b7c0424..8fb6490 100644
--- a/bash.spec
+++ b/bash.spec
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ BuildRequires:  makeinfo
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel
 BuildRequires:  patchutils
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
-BuildRequires:  readline7-devel
+# This has to be always the same version as included in the bash its self
+BuildRequires:  readline-devel == 7.0
 BuildRequires:  screen
 BuildRequires:  sed
 %define         bextend	 %nil
@@ -226,6 +227,10 @@ done
 %endif
 %patch49 -p0 -b .pthtmp
 %patch0  -p0 -b .0
+# This has to be always the same version as included in the bash its self
+rl1=($(sed -rn '/RL_READLINE_VERSION/p' lib/readline/readline.h))
+rl2=($(sed -rn '/RL_READLINE_VERSION/p' /usr/include/readline/readline.h))
+test ${rl1[2]} = ${rl2[2]} || exit 1
 
 %build
   LANG=POSIX