diff --git a/gtk3.spec b/gtk3.spec
index d80e63c..c083aa9 100644
--- a/gtk3.spec
+++ b/gtk3.spec
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ widget toolkit.
 %build
 
 # For the gobject-introspection patch
-rm -f configure
+autoreconf -f
 
 (if ! test -x configure; then NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh; CONFIGFLAGS=--enable-gtk-doc; fi;
  %configure $CONFIGFLAGS \