diff --git a/imsettings.spec b/imsettings.spec
index e213a13..0f3a6ee 100644
--- a/imsettings.spec
+++ b/imsettings.spec
@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ This package contains a module to get this working on MATE.
 %patch2 -p1 -b .2-xcompose
 %patch3 -p1 -b .3-mate
 %patch4 -p1 -b .4-cleanup
-autoreconf
+automake -f
+autoconf -f
 
 %build
 %configure	\