diff --git a/spot.spec.in b/spot.spec.in
index e59339c16..32b51564a 100755
--- a/spot.spec.in
+++ b/spot.spec.in
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ HTML and PDF documentation for Spot.
 
 
 %build
-%configure
+%configure --disable-devel --enable-optimizations
 %make_build