diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.gitignore
similarity index 100%
rename from .cvsignore
rename to .gitignore
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index cabbdd5..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Makefile for source rpm: adns
-# $Id: Makefile,v 1.1 2004/11/08 04:00:44 cvsextras Exp $
-NAME := adns
-SPECFILE = $(firstword $(wildcard *.spec))
-
-define find-makefile-common
-for d in common ../common ../../common ; do if [ -f $$d/Makefile.common ] ; then if [ -f $$d/CVS/Root -a -w $$/Makefile.common ] ; then cd $$d ; cvs -Q update ; fi ; echo "$$d/Makefile.common" ; break ; fi ; done
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON	:= $(shell $(find-makefile-common))
-
-ifeq ($(MAKEFILE_COMMON),)
-# attept a checkout
-define checkout-makefile-common
-test -f CVS/Root && { cvs -Q -d $$(cat CVS/Root) checkout common && echo "common/Makefile.common" ; } || { echo "ERROR: I can't figure out how to checkout the 'common' module." ; exit -1 ; } >&2
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(checkout-makefile-common))
-endif
-
-include $(MAKEFILE_COMMON)
diff --git a/adns.spec b/adns.spec
index a8caae8..f83ec83 100644
--- a/adns.spec
+++ b/adns.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:		adns
 Version:	1.4
-Release:	3%{?dist}
+Release:	4%{?dist}
 
 Summary:	Advanced, easy to use, asynchronous-capable DNS client library
 
@@ -70,7 +70,11 @@ programs for use from the command line and in scripts:
 %setup -q
 
 %build
+%ifarch sparcv9 sparc64 s390 s390x
+export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC"
+%else
 export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE -fpic"
+%endif
 autoreconf -fiv
 %configure --enable-dynamic
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
@@ -107,6 +111,9 @@ rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 29 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 1.4-4
+- some arches need -fPIC 
+
 * Mon Feb 18 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-3
 - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3